Life in the Deserts Flashcards
What is a Desert?
It is an arid region charecteriezed by extremely high or low temparatures and has scarce vegetation
The Sahara desert covers a large part of _______ ________
North Africa
The Sahara desert has an area of ________ and India has an area of ________
Answer in sq. km
8.54 million, 3.28 million
What are the countries that the Sahara desert touches?
Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritiana, Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia and Western Sahara
True or False + Fill in the blanks
Besides great stretches of sand, the Sahara Desert includes gravel plains and elevated plateaus with rocky surfaces
These surfaces are more than ________ high in some places.
Answer blank in m
True, 2500m
How do we get to know that the S. d. used to be a lush green plain? What do the sources show?
Because of cave paintings in the d. and because of fish skeletons found. They show that it once had rivers w/ Crocodiles. Elephants, Lions, Girrafes , Ostriches, sheep and cattle were common.
________ in the S. desert, south of ________, Libya, recorded the highest temp. ________ in ______
Fill temp in Celsius
Al Azizia, Tripoli, 57.7, 1922
True or False
The S. d. has a very long rainy season
False
What is the Highest and lowest temparature of day and night in the S. d.
50 degree celcius, near 0 degree celcius
Flora of the Sahara desert?
Cactus, Date palms( around oasis), Acacia
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Fauna?
Camels, Hyenas, Jackals, Foxes, Scorpions, varieties of snakes and Lizards.
What are the nomadic tribes of the Sahara desert
Bedouins and Tuaregs
What do they grow?
They grow rice, wheat, barley, and beans. Egyptian cotton is grown in Egypt.
Name a large Oasis. Where is it? What is its area?
Tafilalet Oasis, Morocco, 13000 sq. km
What do they wear and why?
They wear heavy robes for protection against hot winds and dust storms
Where is oil found?
Algeria, Libra and Egypt
What are some products of great importance found in the sd?
Oil, Iron, Manganese, Uranium
____ are seen as tour guides for forign citizens
Tuaregs
True or False + replace incorrect
Camels are being used in the salt trade
False, Trucks
Ladakh (the word) is made up of?
La- Snow, Dak - Country
________ , one of the coldest inhabited places on earth, is in Ladakh
Drass
Replace the incorrect
The finest cricket bats are made of Acacia trees
Willow trees
