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Location of Desert
Rain Shadow
Biotic and abiotic factors of Desert
Facts about a Desert
Adaptations
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What is the main source of water in the desert biome?
The main source of water is an oasis. An oasis is a hub of water that is often in the form of springs, wells, or irrigation systems.
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True or False A rain shadow is very wet.

False

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What main adaptation do animals have to have to be able to survive in the desert?
That main adaptation is that animals have to be able to survive a long period of time with out water. Such animals include camels because they are able to store up to five hundred litres of water in there humps.
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true or false a desert can only be a hot place?
False
100
Where do most animals get their water from?
they get most water/ moisture from the food they eat
200
What is the ground like in deserts?
The answer would be rocky and gravely. Only 10% of all deserts are made of sand.
200

The Pacific Ocean is off the West Coast of the United States. The desert called Death Valley is in California and is just East of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Panamint Range. What causes The Death Valley Desert to exist? 

A Rain Shadow

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What is the most dominant animals of a warm deserts?
A reptile (lizards/ snakes)
200
About how many square miles of Chinese land turns into desert every year?
1 000
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Majority of desert animals are _______?
Nocturnal
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How far north and south of the equator lye most deserts?
Most deserts lye 15 degrees and 35 degrees north and south of the equator.
300

Rain shadows do not happen on the ocean side of hills. Why not? 

A hill is not high enough to ALWAYS cause condensation. It is low enough for the wind to blow clouds over the hill. 

300
Name 4 biotic factors in a desert.
camel, snake, cacti, scorpian
300
A record was achieved in 2011 with a man crossing the Sahara desert with a ______?
bicycle
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What are Succulent plants?
They are plants that store water in fleshy leaves, stems or roots
400

Name the top 10 deserts in order.

Antarctic, Arctic, Sahara, Arabian, Gobi, Kalahari, Pategonian, Great Victorian, Syrian, Great Basin

400

What has to happen before the rain can fall on the ocean side of the mountain to cause a rain shadow?

Evaporated water has to rise high enough to lose energy (cool) and condensate into a cloud that gravity can pull condensation out of. 

400

Would roots get more water going very deep in a desert or spreading our very wide just under the surface?  Why? 

Spreading out wide. 

400
How many deserts does Australia have?
Australia has 10 deserts. The Great Victoria Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Tanami Desert, Simpson Deset, Gibson Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Strzelecki Desert, Sturt Stony Desert, Tirari Desert, Pedirka Desert
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some desert animals have none of these to save water.
sweat glands
500
What is the latitude and longitude of the Sahara desert?
23.0797° N, 12.6123° E
500

What are the three factors rain shadows need to happen? 

large water source, sun, a mountain

500
Why are there many different abiotic factors for the desert?
because there are different types of desert around the the world such as hot and dry, semiarid desert, coastal desert, and cold desert.
500
Of the Australian population what percentage live in the desert?
3% of the population live in the Australian deserts
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Desert plants have developed three main adaptive strategies, what are they?
they are succulence, drought tolerance and drought avoidance.