Types of Deserts
Cold ocean currents cause a lack of evaporation.
Coastal Desert
The type of people most impacted by desertification.
Poor people.
The rate of asthma in Coachella Valley.
3x the national average.
The main cause for weather on Earth.
Differential (uneven) heating of the Earth.
The main characteristic of a dessert.
Dry (arid)
Global air circulation create dry regions north and south of the equator.
Sub-tropical deserts
The main impact of desertification on the land.
Loss of good soil, farm land.
The main reason our dust is particularly toxic in Coachella.
The Salton Sea.
The reason winds spin on Earth.
Spin of the Earth, different speeds.
The latitudes of sub-tropical deserts (north and south).
30 degrees north and south of the equator.
Areas too far inland of rain.
Continental deserts
The main of effect of desertification on the atmosphere.
CO2/ Dust storms.
One positive effect of dust storms.
Fertilizer.
The global winds that affect climate.
Trade Winds.
The amount of land covered by deserts.
30% of land.
Frozen areas with no rain.
Polar deserts.
Due to a lack of productive land people affected by desertification are forced to do this.
Migrate.
The name of the disease caused by inhalation of spores from the soil-dwelling fungal species.
Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis)
Average temperature, humidity, weather over a certain time period (at least 5 years).
Climate.
We live in this type of desert.
Rainshadow/ subtropical/ coastal desert.
Mountains block rain on leeward sides.
Rainshadow deserts
If all the land continues to desertify this would be the impact on humans.
Starvation.
This desert fertilizes the Amazon rainforest.
The Sahara Desert,
Surface ocean currents are driven mainly by this.
Wind.
The name of our desert.
Sonoran Desert.