Vocab 1
What is adaptation?
A change in the way someone or something lives
Desertification
Process that land becomes more dry.
What is a landform?
A natural feature of earth.
What is a physical feature?
A natural characteristic of the earth
Technology.
Tools to meet practical needs
Describe the Arid Region
Hot and Dry
Drought
No precipitation for a long time
Landscape
What is moisture that falls from the sky?
Precipitation
What are steady winds that blow towards the equator called
Trade winds.
A crop that is sold
Cash crop
Economic activities
Making, buying, and selling of goods
What is marginal land?
land not good for farming
What is a reg?
A desert plain covered in gravel
What is vegetation?
The plants and trees in an area
What is climate?
Weather over time.
Erg
Sea of sand with tall dunes
What is water in a desert called
an oasis
An area defined by a characteristic.
A region.
What is the usually dry bed of a river called?
a wadi
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!! What is Deforestation and A desert?
The removing of trees and a region with little rainfall.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!!! What is erosion And hammadda?
Wearing away of earth and a high rocky flatland
What are pastoral nomads?
Group of herders that move place to place
What is shifting agriculture?
Clearing an area for agricultural purposes.
A wall that breaks the force of the wind.
A windbreak.