Desert Plants
This plants stores water in it's large stems and leaves.
What is a Cactus
What is a peninsula?
What is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water?
This animal is found in the Sahara desert.
What is a Fennec Fox?
Most desert recieve how much rainfall per year?
What is less than 10 inches a year?
This desert is famous for having dinosaur bones.
The Gobi desert.
This plant is found in the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahan deserts. It is low to the ground and will cut your feet if you walk on it without shoes.
What is scrub brush?
Define climatologist
What is someone who studies the climate change, climtae variability, and the affects the climate has on the biosphere?
This animal is found in the Mojave desert.
What is a sidewinder snake, Jack rabbit, desert horned lizard, rattlesnake, or an iguana?
Are deserts only hot and sandy?
What is deserts can be hot and cold, sandy or rocky and gravely?
This desert has white sand and is found in North America (Northwestern part of New Mexico).
The Chihuahuan desert.
This type of tree is found in the Sahara desert and produces a certain type of eatable fruit.
What is a date palm tree?
Define Radiate
When heat is emitted from an animals body through their ears?
This small rodent eats cacti to get water and urinates crystals.
What is the Kangaroo Rat?
Name a desert that is very cold.
What is Antartica?
This is the largest desert in the world.
What is Antarctica?
This type of plant is found in the desert of Antartica.
What is moss, algae, and funji?
Desertification
What is the process by which fertile land becomes a desert as a result of a drought or the inappropriate use of resources?
The Mojave desert is home to this type of snake.
What is the western diamond back rattlesnake?
This plant is commonly called the Joshua Tree.
What is a Yucca?
This desert is found in Africa and is the home of the nomadic people called the Bedouins.
What is the Sahara desert?
This plant is found in the desert of Austrailia.
What is a prickly pear cactus?
What is a marsupial?
What is a mammal that carries her young in a pouch on her belly?
This animal has large ears and lives in many deserts. Name a desert and the animal.
What is a jack rabbit? They are typically found in the Sonoram desert.
The reason that most deserts are so dry.
What is evaporation?
This desert is found in Austrailia and is mostly sand hills with short grasses and is home of kangaroos and the Aborigines.
What is the Outback?