Deserts
This desert sits on a high plateau in Mexico and Stretches into New Mexico and Texas in the United States.
Chihauhaun Desert
the ladder-backed woodpecker, the screech owl and the sparrow hawk all make their home in the Yucca found only in this desert.
Gobi Desert
small or short brushes and trees
scrub brush
Patagonia is in what country
Argentina
What important resources lies beneath the desert of Saudi Arabia
oil
Many dinosaur bones have been uncovered here.
Gobi Deserts
Some of the animals that live her include the antelope, the gazelle, mountain sheep, and the small fennec fox
Sahara
relating to a geographic pole or the area around it
polar
Where is the Mojave Desert
United States
The Sonoran Desert
Areas that are considered polar deserts
Arctic and antarctic region
An Animal with a pouch, such as a kangaroo is called
Marsupial
the landforms of a piece of land
terrain
Which River runs through the Sahara
Nile
As Europeans arrived in Patagonia they
introduced horses
Many of the counties in this region are rich due to the discovery of oil.
Ostrich
natural or human processes that turn fertile land into a desert
desertification
The Gobi is famous for
fossils
Why is winter in Patagonia from June through Sepember
Southern Hemisphere
The ares of this basin in the central part of southern Africa is almost as large as the state of Texas
Kalahari Desert
Which kind of plant is well adapted to living in the desert
cactus
locations with little precipitation, but with enough moisture to support the growth of grasses, shrubs, and a few scattered trees
semiarid
What is the interior, mostly desert, par of Australia Called
The Outback
The Aboriginal peoples have survived in Australia because
adapted to their environment