General Knowledge
What would the general description of a desert be?
What is hot and sandy
What is the ground made up of usually
What is sand
What is the weather like
What is cold
How do animals in a hot desert try to get cool
What is they burrow under the ground or they hide under tree leaves
What is the average rainfall in a cold desert
(in centimeters)
What is 8 to 13 centimeters
Where is the Gobi Desert located?
Northern China
What is the weather usually like
What is hot
What is ground usually made up of
What is snow
Name an animal from the desert
What is coyotes, snakes, rabbits, mountain lions, bobcats, kit foxes, birds, rabbits, bears, and squirrels
What is the elevation of the Mojave Desert
(feet)
What is 2,000 to 5,000 feet
Name one famous desert in the world?
What is the Gobi or Sahara desert
Why are plants disappearing in the Chihuahuan Desert
What is oil drilling and livestock overgrazing
Where can cold deserts be found
Greenland, Antarctica, and northern and western Asia
What kind of roots do the plants have
What is hollow roots
How big is Antarctica compared to Australia
What is double the size
Where are the 4 major U.S. deserts located?
Southwest (Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada)
Why are the thee U.S hot deserts in jeopardy?
What is human expansion and building of military bases
What is the largest cold desert
What is Antarctica
What usually covers the ground in a cold desert
What is lichens
What gives the Sonoran Desert a decent amount of rainfall in December and January
What is thunderstorms and light rain showers
What is the largest desert on Earth
(Considering hot and cold deserts)
What is Antacrtica
Name the three hot deserts in the U.S.
What is the Chihuahuan, Mojave, and Sonoran deserts
Name the one cold desert in the U.S.
What is the Great Basin desert
What is the name of the most common shrub in the desert
What is the creosote shrub
Who crossed the Gobi desert in the 13th century
Genghis Khan