Small Animals
lizard that is covered with spines and tries to be scary but is harmless.
What is the Horned Toad
What is the largest desert in Africa?
What is the Sahara.
how much rain does a desert usually get, a year?
what is less than 10 in a year
Kangaroo rats dig burrows because the earth is cooler or warmer than the desert soil?
What is cooler
The Saguaro is what type of plant that only lives in the Sonoran desert.
What is a Cactus. the largest cactus in the world.
A lizard that hides in a crack and fills itself with air so an enemy cannot pull it out
What is the Chuckwalla
Which deserts tend to be hotter? They are closer to what part of the earth. E_____
What is the equator.
Snakes and other animals do their hunting at during what time of the day?
What is night
When fall comes animals climb down the mountain before what covers their food
What is snow
The only poisonous lizard found in North America.
G_ _ _ Monster
Gila Monster. it is 22 in long and is sluggish in nature, not it is not generally dangerous and rarely poses a threat to humans.
The largest desert in the Unites States.
The Great Basin Desert
Does Antartica and the Arctic have deserts?
Yes.
Bighorn sheep live high or low in the mountain.
What is high. they are really good climbers and use their horns to protect themselves from predators.
What do you call the prickles on a cactus?
What are spines.
In the desert an Elf Owl will makes its home in what?
What is a cactus. The is owl is the size of a sparrow and will inhabit woodpeckers' holes in saguaro cacti.
The hottest and driest part of North America
What is Death Valley
Where was the hottest temperature ever recorded, located in California?
What is Death Valley. the temp reached 134 degrees
What is a famous desert marsupial that lives in Australia?
Some desert plants have deep taproots that can reach hundreds of feet underground, what is the purpose of this?
What is to access groundwater.
What is the Fennec Fox
True or False: deserts can be cool at night.
What is True. in some deserts in the summer, temp can drop to 25 degrees or lower.
Can a desert have snow and ice?
Yes. It is rare but they have found snow in the Sahara desert in 2022 and in the Sonoran desert in Mexico.
What is the Desert Tortoise
True or False: Desert plants will have narrow or no leaves to reduce water loss thought transpiration.
What is True. Small leaves don't reach as high temps as large leaves in the sun.
This small rodent is named after a famous Australian marsupial. It can go its entire life without a sip of water. K_____ R__
What it the Kangaroo rat.
What it the timberline?
A line where trees can no longer grow
The Arctic and Antarctic deserts are known as what kind of deserts?
What is Polar Deserts. The Antarctic desert is the largest cold desert in the world and is said to be bigger than the Sahara, Arabian and Gobi combined.
A unique land bird that lives in Australia. E_ _
What is the Emu
Many desert plants, like cacti and acacia trees are covered in this?
What are spines. Useful for protection of animals who want to eat them, such as herbivores. During the day, spines radiate heat from the stem.
A jackrabbit will use what part of its body to keep cool?
What is its big ears will give off heat and keep them cool
Desert that is home of Death Valley
True or False: 1/4 th of the Earth's surface is barren land or desert?
False. it is 1/3 rd of earth that is barren or desert land.
This large animal uses its hump to store fat and survive in the desert?
What is the Camel
Through what does a cactus store water?
Through the stems
Could you find bees in the desert?
Yes. Deserts are home to more bee species and individuals than any other environment, The Sonoran desert has over 1,000 species of bees, including the smallest bee, Perdita minima.
What famous American city is located in the desert? What happens there, stays there.
What is Las Vegas
The Sahara Desert in Nothern African extends over how many nations? 5, 9, or 12
What is 12 nations
The largest land bird in North America. Named after our state.
California Condor
Why are desert leaves covered in a thick waxy layer?
This helps them keep plants cool and reduce water loss.