3.3 How do dryland landforms evolve over time as climate changes?

Question 1

3.3 How do dryland landforms evolve over time as climate changes?

Answer 1

Key idea ➡ Fluvial landforms can exist in drylands landscapes as a result of earlier pluvial periods.

Question 2

Pluvial

Answer 2

Pertaining to rain.

Question 3

Climate change and pluvial conditions

Answer 3

Over the past 500,000 years the climate in drylands has oscillated between wet and dry conditions. The impact of their changes is clear in desert landscapes: many present-day landforms are relict features, left over from a period when the climate was much wetter than today.