Characteristics
This must be true for a place to be classified as a desert region.
What is it receives less than 250 mm of precipitation per year?
Animals tend to be active at night to avoid extreme daytime heat. This is called ____.
What is being nocturnal?
This is the largest desert in the world.
What is the Sahara?
Less rainfall and more drought will increase this process of deserts expanding.
What is desertification?
Deserts are experiencing a continuous ____ pressure system.
What is high?
Deserts tend to have very high daytime temperatures and low nighttime temperatures partly because they have none of these in the sky to provide insulation.
What are clouds?
Another way to beat the heat is this, a name for digging a hole and living in the ground.
What is burrowing?
Covers much of Saudi Arabia.
What is the Arabian Desert?
Lead and nitrate polluting the soil are two side effects of this activity in deserts.
What is mining?
The graph that shows the climate of a desert and includes both precipitation and temperatures.
What is a climograph?
Most deserts are located near these two lines of latitude.
What is the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn?
Some plants grow these to collect more rainwater closer to the surface.
Covers much of western Australia
What is the Great Australian Desert?
The construction of these for renewable energy may cause quite a lot of habitat destruction in hot deserts.
What are solar farms?
The name for the difference between daily high and low temperatures.
What is the diurnal range?
Most deserts are found on the western sides of continents because these winds blow in the same direction for most of the year from east to west.
What are prevailing winds?
Cacti>dragon flies and other insects>spiders>lizards>snakes>____?
What are hawks?
The largest desert in the western United States.
What is the Mojave?
These are cars that people drive in the desert for fun which can promote tourism but also cause some habitat destruction.
What are dune buggies?
The desert fox has ____X more sensitive hearing than humans.
What is 20 times?
This is the name of the cell that describes the air movement from the equator to the tropics and back.
What is Hadley?
Is a short-term state of decreased physiological activity in an animal, usually by a reduced body temperature and metabolic rate.
What is torpor?
The Atacama desert is a long, narrow desert largely in this South American country.
Where is Chile?
Sand blowing in these types of storms will cause damage to nearby crops.
What are sand storms?
what is cold?