Causes / Happens
What is...?
Where & When
Protection
100
It is when a violent windstorm blows sand around.
What is a sandstorm?
100
It is a strong, sudden, burst of wind.
What is a gust?
100
Sandstorms occur here in the summer.
What are Saudi Arabia and the U.S.?
100
Meteorologists use these to study weather.
What are radar and satellites?
200
It is caused by the sun heating and cooling the Earth.
What causes wind? (What is wind?)
200
It is a dry hot place that gets very little rain.
What is a desert?
200
Sandstorms happen here in the spring.
What is Iraq?
200
Camels have these to protect their eyes from sand.
What are two rows of eyelashes.
300
These are happen when the wind sweeps sand into large piles and hills.
What are dunes?
300
It is a hot moist wind that blows in the Sahara Desert.
What is a haboob?
300
Once a sandstorm happened here in the winter, and it carried a mixture of sand and ice.
What are India and Russia?
300
People in desert countries use this to cover their head and mouths in sandstorms.
What is a scarf (shesh)?
400
Some examples are that sand gets in car and plane engines and there is poor visibility.
What are some problems that sandstorms cause? (What happens when sandstorms strike?)
400
It is the leaping and jumping of sands blown by the wind.
What is saltation?
400
Like Earth, sandstorms happen here during certain times of year. Some can last 1 month.
What is Mars?
400
In China some people want to plant these to help protect against sandstorms.
What are trees? OR What are windbreaks?
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