Deserts
A desert is...
....a place that is very dry; evaporation exceeds precipitation; and has drastic temperature changes
The river that runs through the Sahara is the...
Nile River.
The Aborigines have survived in Australia because they have...
Adapted to their environment closely over thousands of years.
The Gobi Desert is on what continent?
Asia
Death Valley is in which desert?
Mojave Desert
One thing that both “hot” and “cold” deserts have in common is...
Extreme day and night temperatures.
The Sahara is known for...
Extensive salt mines and camel caravans
The interior, mostly desert part of Australia is called the...
Outback.
The Gobi covers most of which two countries?
Mongolia and part of northern China
The Chihuahuan desert extends from...
Mexico to Texas and New Mexico.
A plant that is well-adapted to living in the desert is the...
Saguaro cactus.
Where is the Kalahari in relation to the Sahara?
The Kalahari is south of the Sahara below the equator.
An animal with a pouch, such as a kangaroo, is called a...
Marsupial
The Gobi Desert is famous for having..
So many fossils
Since Patagonia is in the Southern Hemisphere, winter is from...
June to September
When an animal or plant changes its behavior in reaction to its environment, it is said to have...
Adapted
Explain how the San people store water:
The San people collect rainwater in hollowed ostrich eggs, plug them at each end, and bury them deep in the desert.
What are songlines?
Aborigines’ maps of their world that they passed on by word of mouth.
The northernmost end of the Arabian Peninsula connects which two continents?
Africa and Asia
The driest place on earth is the...
Atacama Desert.
A desert location with plentiful drinkable water is called an...
Oasis
The Sahara stretches from the....
The Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.
According to Aborigine myth, what was “dreamtime”?
It is the “time before time”. It is the myth that explains the creation of the world.
Beneath the desert of Saudi Arabia is this important resource...
Oil
What animal did European settlers introduce when they arrived in Patagonia?
Horses