Deserts

Question 1

portions known as the Colorado Desert (California) and the Yuma Desert (Arizona)

Answer 1

Sonoran Desert

Question 2

Saguaro cactus

Answer 2

Sonoran Desert

Question 3

Gila River runs through the Arizona part

Answer 3

Sonoran Desert

Question 4

Colorado River toad or the Sonoran Desert toad contains 5-MeO-DMT

Answer 4

Sonoran Desert

Question 5

Tohono O’Odham tribe

Answer 5

Sonoran Desert

Question 6

contains Death Valley

Answer 6

Mojave Desert

Question 7

Joshua tree

Answer 7

Mojave Desert

Question 8

ghost towns like Calico, California, and Kelso, California

Answer 8

Mojave Desert

Question 9

Las Vegas, Lake Mead, Hoover Dam

Answer 9

Mojave Desert

Question 10

the largest desert in North America

Answer 10

Chihuahuan Desert

Question 11

Big Bend National Park

Answer 11

Chihuahuan Desert

Question 12

the driest desert on Earth outside of the poles

Answer 12

Atacama Desert

Question 13

Very Large Telescope and Extremely Large Telescope

Answer 13

Atacama Desert

Question 14

camanchaca fog from sea mist

Answer 14

Atacama Desert

Question 15

saltpeter mining (sodium nitrate)

Answer 15

Atacama Desert

Question 16

tools and equipment for Mars are tested here

Answer 16

Atacama Desert

Question 17

Antofagasta

Answer 17

Atacama Desert

Question 18

mostly in Argentina

Answer 18

Patagonian Desert

Question 19

covers parts of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara

Answer 19

Sahara Desert

Question 20

ancient “mega” lakes

Answer 20

Sahara Desert

Question 21

Cave of Swimmers

Answer 21

Sahara Desert

Question 22

large sand dunes called “ergs”

Answer 22

Sahara Desert

Question 23

Aorounga Crater

Answer 23

Sahara Desert

Question 24

Great Green Wall (being built to stop the spread of the desert)

Answer 24

Sahara Desert

Question 25

Marrakech, Morocco, is often referred to as the “Gateway to the Sahara”

Answer 25

Sahara Desert

Question 26

fennec fox

Answer 26

Sahara Desert

Question 27

Tibesti Mountains

Answer 27

Sahara Desert

Question 28

Niamey, Timbuktu, Sankore University

Answer 28

Sahara Desert

Question 29

Sahel transition zone on the southern border of the desert

Answer 29

Sahara Desert

Question 30

Richat Structure called the Eye of the Sahara

Answer 30

Sahara Desert

Question 31

Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa

Answer 31

Kalahari Desert

Question 32

Makgadikgadi Salt Pan (Kubu ‘Island’ contains a number of baobab trees)

Answer 32

Kalahari Desert

Question 33

Okavango Delta

Answer 33

Kalahari Desert

Question 34

San Bushmen (often referred to as Kalahari Bushmen) and !Kung people

Answer 34

Kalahari Desert

Question 35

flamingos and meerkats

Answer 35

Kalahari Desert

Question 36

Namibia, west of the Kalahari

Answer 36

Namib Desert

Question 37

shipwrecks led to the name Skeleton Coast

Answer 37

Namib Desert

Question 38

Khoekhoe word meaning “vast place”

Answer 38

Namib Desert

Question 39

covers all or parts of Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Answer 39

Arabian Desert

Question 40

contains the Rub-al Khali desert

Answer 40

Arabian Desert

Question 41

in Turkmenistan

Answer 41

Karakum Desert

Question 42

means ‘black sand’

Answer 42

Karakum Desert

Question 43

a crater near Darvaza has been burning for over 50 years (known as “The Door to Hell”)

Answer 43

Karakum Desert

Question 44

in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan

Answer 44

Kyzylkum Desert

Question 45

means ‘red sand’

Answer 45

Kyzylkum Desert

Question 46

China and Mongolia

Answer 46

Gobi Desert

Question 47

Bactrian camels

Answer 47

Gobi Desert

Question 48

Altai Mountains to the north

Answer 48

Gobi Desert

Question 49

the Tian Shan range separates it from the Taklamakan Desert

Answer 49

Gobi Desert

Question 50

On the Trail of Ancient Man by Roy Andrews

Answer 50

Gobi Desert

Question 51

Flaming Cliffs were the sites of the first discovered dinosaur eggs

Answer 51

Gobi Desert

Question 52

‘death worm’

Answer 52

Gobi Desert

Question 53

people here live in yurts (or gers)

Answer 53

Gobi Desert