A feature that ALL deserts share, no matter where they are located?
What is dryness?
100
Name the river that runs through the Sahara.
What is the Nile River?
100
The Aborigines were able to survive in Australia because they...
What is adapt to their environment?
100
Name the ancient creatures that roamed that area known as Gobi today.
What is the velociraptor & protoceratops?
100
Death Valley is a famous region in which desert.
What is Mojave Desert?
200
One thing hot and cold deserts have in common
What is drastic change between day & night temperatures?
200
The Sahara stretches from the...
What is Atlantic Ocean and Red Sea?
200
The interior, mostly desert part of Australia.
What is the Outback?
200
The Gobi covers...
What is most of Mongolia & part of northern China?
200
This desert extends from Mexico into Texas and New Mexico.
What is Chihuahuan Desert?
300
Active and awake at night is _______________. Give an example.
What is nocturnal and lizard?
300
The San People uses an ostrich egg for what purpose?
What is store water?
300
An animal with a pouch is called ____________. Give an example.
What is marsupial and kangaroo?
300
The northernmost end of the Arabian Peninsula connects what two continents.
What is Africa & Asia?
300
Patagonia is in this country.
What is Argentina?
400
What is precipitation and the different forms?
What is moisture in the form of sleet, snow, hail, and rain.
400
The Kalahari is in which direction from the Sahara.
What is south?
400
Aborigines' maps of their world that is passed on by word of mouth.
What is songlines?
400
True or False: There are 3 permanent rivers that run through the Arabian Peninsula.
What is False? There are no rivers that run through the Arabian Peninsula.
400
Patagonia experiences winter from June through September because...
What is Patagonia is in the Southern Hemisphere?
500
An animal or plan changes its behavior to fit in their environment is ______________________. Name a plant that can do this.
What is adapt and cactus?
500
The Kalahari is a large basin, covering an area almost as large as the state of …
What is Texas?
500
According to Aborigine myth “dreamtime” is ...
What is a time before time?
500
The Saudi Arabian king, Ibn Saud, did not know that beneath the sand was an important resource that could make him rich.
What is oil?
500
5 facts about Death Valley
What is
1) It was formed between 2 fault lines
2) lowest elevation in W. Hemisphere
3)highest recorded temperature in the U.S
4) driest place in the U.S
5) used to be a busy place