Life in a Desert
Life in the Sahel
Sahel Area
Physical Characteristics of the Desert
Sahara Interesting Facts
100
The largest desert in the world
What is the Sahara Desert
100
This is a fact of life in the Sahel
What is drought
100
People have now started to use this for cooking instead of wood in the Sahel
What is coal
100
The Tuareg wear long, loose clothing to protect them from the sun and use these for transportation.
What is camels
100
Only 2 rivers run through the Sahara, name them both.
What is Nile and Niger.
200
The Sahara receives this much rain a year?
What is 5 inches
200
Double Points!! Farmers use this type of farming in the Sahel
What is shifting
200
These people move their animals from one grazing area to another throughout the year.
What is herders
200
Double points!! These have been used to create new oasis in the desert.
What are drilling machines
200
Double points!! These are sand dunes in the desert
What are ergs
300
Double Points!! The Sahara is the same as the U.S. at roughly __________ square miles.
What is 3.5 million
300
This has begun in many places in the Sahel
What is desertification
300
These are tiny islands of fresh water in the desert
What is oasis
300
Visiting nomads' _________________ their products for ______________ and ____________.
What is trade, water, and food.
300
Desert temperatures fluctuate greatly in the desert, from near_________ in the daytime to near _____________ at night.
What is 100 and freezing.
400
There are how many African countries included in the Sahara Desert region?
What is 15 countries
400
The vegetation in the Sahel is a mix of ________________, __________trees, ________________trees, and small bushes.
What is grasslands, acacia, baobab.
400
Double points!! This is the the most important and common oasis plany
What is a date palm
400
Double Points!! This is a gravel covered plain in the desert
What are regs
400
While temperatures fluctuate greatly, this does not in the desert.
What is rainfall
500
The Sahara is considered the ________________ and ___________ area in the world!
What is harshest and driest
500
Farmers plant crops like ________________ and ____________ in the Sahel, as these crops grow well in dry places.
What is millet, sorghum
500
Farmers build these to protect their fields from the desert?
What is windbreaks
500
These are high rock covered flatlands in the desert.
What is hammadas.
500
Double Points!! These are people that live in the Sahara and raise animals, called__________ ___________. Such as the _____________________.
What is pastoral nomads and Tuaregs.
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