Deserts and Extreme Environments

Deserts and Extreme Environments

1. Extreme Environment

   • A place which is hard to survive in due to multiple reasons
     • Lack of water
     • Lack of food
     • Climate
     • Weather
     • Transport
     • No shelter
   • Example of places
     • Deserts
       • Sahara
       • Antarctica
     • Mountains
       • Mount Everest
       • Andes
     • Rainforests
     • Near volcanoes
     • Natural catastrophes happen a lot
   • Responding diferently to extreme environments now
     • Training
     • Technology
     • Media
     • Equipment

2. Location of the main hot deserts

3. Describe what the graphs are showing about the weather

   • The higher the temperature, the less rainfall there is
   • There's no rainfall in the months of June, July and August and the tempertaure is above 30C
   • Include
     • Data
     • Months
     • Increases/decreases season
     • Links between Temp/Rain

4. Deserts are hot in the day and cold at night

   • During the day the sun's rays beat down on the ground making it warm
   • There are no clouds to shade the ground from the sun
   • There's no way to trap the heat so it is cold during the night
   • The air is heated too
   • The heat escapes at night due to no cloud cover

5. Why do deserts recieve little rainfall?

   • Rain shadow
     • Once the air cools and condenses there is little moisture left
     • Happens to deserts on the lee side of a mountain!
       • Leeway side of the mountain is protected from the prevailing winds and is therefore drier
     • Source: National Geographic Education
   • Coastal Deserts
   • Prevailing Winds

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