Hot Deserts

Question 1

Name the two types of deserts?

Answer 1

A hot desert and a cold desert.

Question 2

Name the worlds largest hot desert?

Answer 2

Sahara desert.

Question 3

Name the worlds largest cold desert?

Answer 3

Antarctica.

Question 4

What are hot deserts?

Answer 4

Hot deserts are both dry and dry.

Question 5

How much rainfall do deserts receive a year?

Answer 5

Less than 250 mm.

Question 6

What are average temperatures for deserts?

Answer 6

Above 25 degrees.

Question 7

How long can deserts go without any rain?

Answer 7

They can go for years without getting any rain.

Question 8

Sometimes there are weak storms in deserts. True or False?

Answer 8

False there are heavy storms.

Question 9

A years rain can fall during a very heavy storm. True or false?

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Which storms can cause flash floods?

Answer 10

Heavy storms like when a whole years rain has fell.

Question 11

People have never drowned in he deserts because of these flash floods. True or False?

Answer 11

False people have actually drowned in the deserts during these flash floods.

Question 12

Where is the driest place in the world?

Answer 12

The driest place in the world is the Atacama desert in South America.

Question 13

Why can’t many plants survive in the desert?

Answer 13

Because it is too hot and dry for many plants to survive in the desert.

Question 14

What have desert plants done to survive the heat and dry climate?

Answer 14

They have adapted to the heat and dry climate.

Question 15

Name a plant that has long roots that can find water underground?

Answer 15

The African Welwitschia and the camel thorn tree which are found in the Namibia desert.

Question 16

What do other plants have so that they do not lose water easily?

Answer 16

They have spiky leaves that don’t lose water very easily.

Question 17

What are most desert animals?

Answer 17

Nocturnal.

Question 18

Where do desert animals spend their days?

Answer 18

They spend their days in burrows underground.

Question 19

Why do they come out at night?

Answer 19

They come out at night to feed on plants or to hunt other animals.

Question 20

What animals do large deserts include?

Answer 20

Camel, spotted hyena and sand fox. There are also smaller animals like gerbils, snakes, cape hares, lizards, frogs and other insects.

Question 21

How do camels survive in the desert for long periods of time?

Answer 21

They can survive in the desert because they can go without food and water for long periods because they store food and water in their humps.

Question 22

How many people live in the Sahara desert?

Answer 22

Two million.

Question 23

The Sahara desert is smaller than the USA. True or False?

Answer 23

False it is bigger than the USA.

Question 24

If is very difficult to live through such conditions in the desert? True or False?

Answer 24

True because of its hot and dry climate.

Question 25

Like animals and plants what have people done to be able to live in this environment?

Answer 25

They have adapted to the environment.

Question 26

What do desert nomads cover their bodies in?

Answer 26

Loose fitting clothing.

Question 27

When they travel the what do the Taureg people live in?

Answer 27

Thick tents that give shade in day and warmth at night.

Question 28

If you were in the middle of the desert in your normal clothes what would happen to you?

Answer 28

In one hour you would have lost one liter of water from sweating, by the end of the day you could be 5 kg lighter and you would have stiff muscles and a headache caused by losing body salts in your sweat.

Question 29

What are desert homes like?

Answer 29

Houses have thick walls and small windows, water is pumped from underground wells, shade cloth covers outside areas and air conditioning which keeps homes cool.

Question 30

What valuable thing do deserts have?

Answer 30

Valuable minerals.

Question 31

What is deep in the rocks of the Sahara Desert?

Answer 31

There are rich oil supplies.

Question 32

What do oil companies do for people who work at oil fields and oil refineries?

Answer 32

They build settlements for them.

Question 33

In some places water is piped hundreds of kilometers to desert settlements. True or False?

Answer 33

True

Question 34

What is a desert?

Answer 34

A desert is an area of very low rainfall.

Question 35

The main human activity in deserts are….

Answer 35

Mining.