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The Two Major Deserts
Vocabulary
Life in the Desert
Life in the Oases
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The world's largest desert.
What is The Sahara.
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The process by which land becomes more and more dry until it turns into desert. This may be caused by climate change, human activities, or both.
What is desertification
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"Nighttime is the winter of the desert" refers to:
What cold desert nights.
100
These produce the desert's most valuable cash crop.
What are date palms.
100
This chapter covered this continent.
What is Africa.
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This is the desert located just below the world's largest desert.
What is The Sahel.
200
An unusually long period in which little or no rain falls.
What is drought
200
This is very uncommon in the desert, however, it is needed for everyone to survive.
What is rain/water.
200
These are the two major economic activities in the oasis.
What are trading and farming.
200
This is a problem caused when too many cattle graze in an area and destroy its cover of plants.
What is overgrazing.
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These are the 3 principal types of landforms in the desert.
What ergs, regs, and hammadas.
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Land that is not well suited for growing crops.
What is marginal land
300
These hazardous condition can carry away rocks, people, and even trucks.
What is a flash flood.
300
Mud bricks are used in the making of these.
What are "homes" within an oasis town.
300
Before trucks, these were used for transportation in deserts.
What are camels.
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The biggest problem facing the desert regions today.
What is desertification.
400
Groups of herders who move with their animals from place to place in search of pasture and water.
What are pastoral nomads.
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One of two rivers which flow through the Sahara: The other river being the Niger.
What is the Nile River.
400
This is one of two problems facing oasis towns. The other being how to transport water to people as the town expands.
What is a water shortage.
400
The United States is about equal size to this desert.
What is The Sahara.
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This is caused when winds pick up loose soil from worn-out land and blow it away.
What are sandstorms.
500
A fertile spot in a desert where water is found.
What is an oasis.
500
This can be used to make contact with people, even in a desert, with no 4G.
What is a satellite phone.
500
These are used to transport food and water in the desert.
What are trucks.
500
He is known as the "Man Who Stopped the Desert."
Who is Yacouba Sawadogo