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- 1How much rain fall does a desert have yearly?250mm
- 2Define a hot desert?Hot deserts lie around the Tropic of Cancer or the Tropic of Capricorn. They have hot summer and warm winters. There is little rain. Cloud cover is rare and humidity is very low, there is nothing to block out the sun in day or prevent its loss at night. temperatures can be from 45c and -15c in 24 hours
- 3Define a cold desert?Cold deserts lie on high ground north of the Tropic of Cancer and south of the Tropic of Capricorn. They include the polar deserts. Rain falls as snow. Winters are very cold and summers are dry and mild to warm.
- 4Define 'Erosion'Erosion removes materials such as weathered rock.
(When the surface of the earth is worn away by water, glaciers, wind or waves) - 5Most hot deserts are found between...15-35*c degrees latitude
- 6Name the desert in Aus, USA, China, Africa and Iran/IraqAus....The Australian desert-
USA....Mojave desert
China....Taklamakan Desert
Africa.... Sahara desert
Iran/Iraq....great salt, - 7rain shadow desert form .......(rain form forms on the leeward side of the mountain range not much moister). cloud gets water from windward side as it rises it cools down releasing rain then it goes over to the leeward side when it collects the moister form the land warming the cloud up because it takes all the water the land is dry.
- 8cold ocean deserts form.....ocean have both hot and cold currents.
When cold current flows over warm landmasses it get all the moister from the land but it cant release it unless there is mountain ranges so the land stays arid-dry. - 9inland desert form.....these desert are so far inland that the cloud has already released the water somewhere else so by the time the cloud get to the desert it has become so warm that it can not release any moister it holds.
- 10define land form: wadiwadis is a dry riverbed or gully's that have been formed by flash floods and rock or earth that have been dislodged.
- 11define land form: mesamesa is an isolated flat-topped hill with steep sides that has been formed by thousand of years of extreme temperatures and heavy rain.
- 12define land form: oasisoasis is a fertile spot in a desert. It receives water from underground supplies.
- 13define land form: plateauplateau is an flat bear rock suface.
- 14define land form: sand duesand dues start as small mounds of sand that collect around an object like a rock. As they grow they are moved and shaped by wind.
- 15define land form: salt lakea lake of salt
- 16What animals belong to: Gobigobi bear
gray wolf
gold eagle
musk oxen - 17What animals belong to: Saharafennec fox
ostrich
snake
camels - 18What animal belongs to: Australiasnakes
camels
kangaroo
bilbies - 19What animals belong to: Mojaverattlesnake
bats
hawk
tortoise - 20What animals belong to: Antarcticapenguins
whales
seals
seabirds - 21Name and describe 2 animals' adaptationscamels have double row of eyelashes on each eye to keep out sand and wind.
Moles are blind so they swim trough the sand. - 22name and describe 2 plant adaptionMulga have specially shaped leaves so that when it rains the water funnels to the base of the tree
spinifex leaves roll into tight balls to reduce the sunlight - 23how to survive if you are a human*Use a compass or the sun to find north
*Make an emergence water supply using a plastic bag and a leafy tree
*Don't panic so your body doesn't lose water
*Wear things to protect you from the sun and wind
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