Desert

Question 0

What happens when storms dump water fast

Answer 0

Runs off but creates channels that flood

Question 1

What latitude do desert usually form

Answer 1

20-30 N or 20-30 S

Question 2

What does the hydrosphere have to do with

Answer 2

Water availibility

Question 2

What does the lithosphere have to do with

Answer 2

Desert formations

Question 4

What happens when air between the hot from equator and cold from the poles mix

Answer 4

Form atmospheric pressure called pressure belts

Question 5

When do desert lakes form

Answer 5

If there is enough rain

Question 6

Have deep are desert lakes

Answer 6

Usually shallow

Question 7

Are desert lakes usually permenent or temporary

Answer 7

Usually temporary

Question 8

What happens when desert lakes dry up

Answer 8

Salt crust called playa

Question 9

How do sand or dunes move

Answer 9

With wind

Question 10

What is groundwater that flows under deserts called

Answer 10

Aquifiers

Question 11

How do oasis form

Answer 11

Aquifiers running close to surface

Question 12

How does water get into Aquifiers

Answer 12

Areas of high rainfall

Question 14

How many wind directions are needed to make a cresent dune

Answer 14

1

Question 15

Why do rivers not flow anywhere

Answer 15

High evaporation, if they do they have high sediment

Question 16

What are longitudes dunes and how many directions of winds are needed to make them

Answer 16

Parallel ridges 2 directions

Question 17

What percent of deserts are sand

Answer 17

20 %

Question 18

How far can they move in one year

Answer 18

Up to 100 m

Question 18

What is the most common dune

Answer 18

Cresent

Question 19

What do messa dunes look like

Answer 19

Flat top hills

Question 20

How many directions needed to make start dune

Answer 20

Lots

Question 21

What are butte formations

Answer 21

Rock columns

Question 22

What are messa dunes

Answer 22

Dunes from water erosion

Question 23

How are badlandss made and what are they

Answer 23

Dry gorges erosion

Question 24

How are buttes made

Answer 24

Abrasion

Question 25

What is abrasion

Answer 25

Sand blasted by wind

Question 26

Arches are formed by

Answer 26

Abrasion

Question 27

With clay soil on gibber plains, what is there little of

Answer 27

Vegetation

Question 28

Pedestal rock have a what structure

Answer 28

Mushroom

Question 29

Wadi are what

Answer 29

Sediment deposit.

Flat landscape

Question 30

What desert has the most moving sand

Answer 30

rub’ al Khali

Question 31

What are stony plains

Answer 31

Plains with sand removed and pebbles left behind

Question 32

What percent of deserts are stony plains

Answer 32

50%

Question 34

What are gibber plains

Answer 34

Stony deserts on clay soil

Question 35

What ere soils in deserts high and low in

Answer 35

High minerals low organic material.

Question 36

How are desert landforms made

Answer 36

Wind blasting sand which is called abrasion.

Question 37

What percent of deserts are made of rock formations

Answer 37

30 %

Question 38

What are rock formations

Answer 38

Exposed rock or soil and river deposits like playa.

Question 38

What is the biggest desert

Answer 38

Sahara

Question 39

How far has dust from Sahara been carried

Answer 39

Uk and Germany

Question 40

How hot can desert soil be

Answer 40

Up to 75 Celsius

Question 40

How much rain does the atacma desert get

Answer 40

.8 mm each year

Question 42

What is the atacma desert famous for

Answer 42

Driest desert