Vocab 1
Natural or human processes that turn fertile land into a desert
What is desertification?
Death Valley is in which desert?
What is the Mojave desert?
What country is Death Valley in?
What is United States of America?
Driest desert on Earth
What is the Gobi desert?
an area of land where evaporation has left a layer of salt
what is precipitation?
scientist who studies weather patterns over time
What is a climatologist?
This valley has the lowest elevation in the Western Hemisphere.
What is Death Valley?
There is a lot of oil underneath the grounds of this desert
What is Arabian Peninsula?
a place that is very dry
what is a desert?
an area of land where evaporation has left a layer of salt
what is a salt flat?
the process by which a liquid changes to a vapor or gas
what is evaporation?
What is the Sonoran Desert?
when a plan or animal changes its behavior in reaction to its environment
desert location with plentiful drinking water
what is an oasis?
small or short bushes and trees
what is scrub brush??
relating to geographic pole or the area around it
what is polar?
Patagonia is in which country?
What is Argentina?
Arabian Peninsula connects which two continents
What is Africa and Asia?
this river runs through the Sahara
What is the Nile?
describing locations with little precipitation, but with enough moisture to support the growth of grasses, shrubs, and a few scattered trees
What is semiarid?
water falling to Earth's surface as rain, hail, snow, or sleet
what is precipitation?
Europeans introduced horses to this South American desert
What is Patagonia?
This desert extends from Mexico into Texas and New Mexico
What is Chihuahuan?
the interior of Australia
what is the Outback?
landforms of a piece of land