The Review Game Show Deserts

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The Review Game ShowDeserts
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Geography for 100

• This desert in northern Africa is about the size
  of the United States. It is the largest desert in
  the world.

What is the Sahara?
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Geography for 200

• This desert stretches from southeast California
  across southwest Arizona and down into northwest
  Mexico.

What is the Sonoran Desert?
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Geography for 300

• This desert in eastern Asia is the coldest
  desert in the world.

What is the Gobi Desert?
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Geography 400

• This sparsely populated desert is located in
  western Australia.

What is the Great Sandy Desert?
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Geography for 500

• This desert is located in the middle east. It is
  the sandiest desert in the world.

What is the Arabian Desert?
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Plants for 100

• This desert plant can grow up to 50 feet tall
  and live for up to 200 years. It is also home to
  many animals.

What is a Saguaro?
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Plants for 200

• This plant has flat, fleshy pads that look like
  large leaves. These pads store water and
  photosynthesis and flower production.

What is the Prickly Pear?
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Plants for 300

• This fat cactus is covered with spines that can
  swell to hold water. Its insides look like a
  watermelon.

What is a barrel cactus?
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Plants for 400

• This short cactus is covered with in barbs sharp
  enough to stab animals that try to get near. But
  in the sunlight it is covered with soft, fuzzy
  hairs.

What is the Teddy Bear Cholla?
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Plants for 500

• These are 3 adaptations plants have that allow
  them to survive in the desert.

What are special root systems, ability to store
water and waxy coverings that prevent
evaporation.
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Animals for 100

• During the hottest part of the day many desert
  animals do this.

What is take shelter?
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Animals for 200

• I peck holes in a soft desert cactus. I live in
  the hole for a while and then move out. Other
  animals move into the hole I made.

What is a woodpecker?
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Animals for 300

• Colored bands circle my body. My eyelids have
  fringes so I wont get sand in them.

What is a Banded Gecko?
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Animals for 400

• These are 3 three adaptations that help camels
  survive in the desert?

What are long eyelashes, nostrils can be closed
to keep out blowing sand and feet prevents them
from sinking in sand?
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Animals for 500

• This is where animals might find water in the
  desert.

What are in plants seeds, and the animals they
eat?
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Landforms for 100

• The wind builds these landforms. Their shapes
  differ depending on the direction of the wind and
  the amount of sand in the area.

What is a sand dune?
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Landforms for 200

• A constant supply of water, usually coming from
  underground springs allows plants and animals to
  flourish here.

What is an oasis?
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Landforms for 300

• This huge desert landform can be created when
  rock sits on top softer rock, forming a cap. As
  wind and water erode the soft rock, steep sloping
  sides develop. The hard caprock forms a flat
  top.

What is a mesa?
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Landforms for 400

• When a river flows through a high, rocky area,
  it cuts grinds, and carves the rock year after
  year and often form this dramatic desert feature.

What is a canyon?
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Landforms for 500

• When it rains in most deserts, the water usually
  doesnt flow into oceans or rivers. Instead
  temporary streams often empty into these dry
  desert plains or lake beds.

What is a playa?
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Weather for 100

• True or False.
• Deserts are always warm.

Always warm?
What is false?
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Weather for 200

• This is the amount of rainfall deserts get every
  year.

What is less than 10 inches?
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Weather for 300

• True or False.
• Deserts never flood.

What is false?
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Weather for 400

• What two weather conditions cause erosion and
  help to form landforms such as arches.

What are the rain and the wind?
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Weather for 500

• The hot sun very quickly causes any moisture in
  the air and ground, or in a cactus plant to do
  this.

What is evaporation?
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