vocab
relating to a geographic pole or the area around it
What is polar?
The natural or human processes that turn fertile land into a desert.
What is desertification?
A place where evaporation exceeds precipitation
What is a desert?
This desert has rocky mountains, salt flats, gravel plains, and sand seas
What is the Sahara?
This group of people have lived on the Australian continent for at least 40,000 years
Who are the Aborgines?
describes locations with little precipitation, but with enough moisture to support the growth of grasses, shrubs, and a few scattered trees
What are semiarid regions?
an area in the desert where there are plants and water
What is an oasis?
What feature do both hot and cold deserts share?
They both experience extreme changes between daytime and nighttime temperatures
This desert has oases and in the east the Nile River
What is the Sahara
This animal ( amphibian) help the Aborigines survive in the desert
What are desert frogs?
This person is a scientist who studies weather patterns over time
An area of land where evaporation has left a layer of salt
What is a salt flat?
How have people learned to adapt to the desert?
They have learned to use irrigation to water crops. People have also learned to use technology to transport water from other places, as well as use dams to store water.
This desert gets more rainfall, has more vegetation, and wildlife than the Sahara
What is the Kalahari Desert?
This is an Aboriginal myth about when the world was created
What is dreamtime?
The process by which a liquid changes to a vapor or gas.
What is evaporation?
This type of mammal that carries its young in a pouch
What are marsupials?
Deserts that are closer to the equator have ________________ temperatures than those __________________ away from the equator
warmer, farther
This group of people live the Kalahari, they have been able to adapt to the desert life by learning how to find and save water
Who are the San?
these songs helped guide Aborigines to food and water
What are songlines?
Water falling to Earth's surface as rain, hail, snow, or sleet
What is precipitation?
Small or short bushes and trees
What is a scrub brush?
The dryness of the land, the rate of evaporation exceeding the amount of precipitation or rainfall the area receives, the dramatic change between daytime and nighttime temperatures
What are features of a desert?
This type of egg was used to store water
What are ostrich eggs?
Aborigines have lived in the Australian Desert for thousands of years because they use the resources of the land to help them survive (rain & frogs to get rain from) they also use songmaps to find their way in the desert to locate food and water