Deserts
Plants and Animals
Vocabulary
Countries
Facts
100

This desert sits on a high plateau in Mexico and Stretches into New Mexico and Texas in the United States.

Chihauhaun Desert

100

the ladder-backed woodpecker, the screech owl and the sparrow hawk all make their home in the Yucca found only in this desert.

Gobi Desert

100

small or short brushes and trees

scrub brush

100

Patagonia is in what country

Argentina

100

What important resources lies beneath the desert of Saudi Arabia

oil

200

Many dinosaur bones have been uncovered here.

Gobi Deserts

200

Some of the animals that live her include the antelope, the gazelle, mountain sheep, and the small fennec fox

Sahara

200

relating to a geographic pole or the area around it

polar

200

Where is the Mojave Desert

United States

200
Where is the Devils Highway located

The Sonoran Desert 

300

Areas that are considered polar deserts

Arctic and antarctic region

300

An Animal with a pouch, such as a kangaroo is called

Marsupial

300

the landforms of a piece of land

terrain

300

Which River runs through the Sahara

Nile

300

As Europeans arrived in Patagonia they 

introduced horses

400

Many of the counties in this region are rich due to the discovery of oil.

Arabian Peninsula
400
In what bird's eggshells do the San store water

Ostrich

400

natural or human processes that turn fertile land into a desert

desertification

400

The Gobi is famous for

fossils

400

Why is winter in Patagonia from June through Sepember

Southern Hemisphere

500

The ares of this basin in the central part of southern Africa is almost as large as the state of Texas

Kalahari Desert

500

Which kind of plant is well adapted to living in the desert

cactus

500

locations with little precipitation, but with enough moisture to support the growth of grasses, shrubs, and a few scattered trees

semiarid

500

What is the interior, mostly desert, par of Australia Called

The Outback

500

The Aboriginal peoples have survived in Australia because

adapted to their environment

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