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Total questions: 62
Worksheet time: 43mins
There are no deserts in the continent of
(a)
The (a) Desert is partly in Mexico
The ___________ Desert is partly in South America.
Atacama
Arabian
Gobi
Big one
The ___________ Desert is in Southwest Asia
Asian
Australian
American Southwest
Arabian
The __________ Desert is in Mongolia, Asia.
Yert
Gobi
Driest
Sahara
The _________ Desert is in Botswana in southern Africa
Botswana
Kalahari
Shifting Sands
Popcorn
The ________ Desert is in North Africa
Arabian
Gobi
Antarctic
Sahara
The _______Desert is on a continent that is also a country.
Austrailian
British
Cacti
American Southwest
The equator divides the earth into two halves
The top and bottom
The right and left
The tropics of Cancer and Capricorn
The Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere
The two imaginary lines of dry area the circle the earth are:
Erasable
Only seen at Night
The tropics of Cancer and Capricorn
The lines of the Equator
A desert usually has (a) or less inches of rain in a year.
A desert forms in the (a) of a mountain that blocks its moisture.
The largest desert in the world outside the Polar Regions is the (a)
Desert plants die when it rains.
True
False
Hunter/gatherers carried many possessions with them.
True
False
The people of the Atacama get water from the fog by using plastic sheets or nets.
True
False
The Nile River is in the Sahara Desert.
True
False
What habitat is this?
grassland
tropical forest
desert
the ocean
Which animal lives in the desert?
penguin
camel
jellyfish
turtle
A camel's _ stores fat.
(a)
A camel can go a week or more without drinking water.
True
False
What does nomadic mean? Use the glossary to help you.
Rounding up cattle
Moving from place to place
Reading books on a wagon
Traveling by horse
What kind of animal is this?
Desert Tortoise
Kingsnake
California Condor
Gila Monster
Which river runs through the Sahara?
the Amazon
Rio Colorado
the Nile
Rio Grande
On what continent is the Gobi Desert?
Europe
Africa
South America
Asia
The Gobi covers
all of Mongolia
most of Mongolia and part of northern China
all of southern China
Saudi Arabia
Climatologists consider this desert the driest place on Earth.
Atacama
Patagonia
Sonoran
Gobi
Every continent, except Europe, has at least one _______________.
Park
Desert
Grassland
This is the largest desert in the world.
Sahara
Himalaya
Atacama
In the daytime, temperatures can reach _____ degrees C. At night, the air cools to around _______ degrees C.
25, 1
100, -10
40, 10
38,-3
True or False? Desert temperatures can be extreme.
True
False
Which is the largest desert the world?
Great Basin Desert
Sahara Desert
Sonoran Desert
Where can you find deserts?
in the Indian Ocean
in South America, North America, Asia, Australia, Africa, and Antarctica.
in Europe
What are some ways people have found to protect themselves against the extreme conditions of deserts?
(a)
What do desert people wear?
They wear regular clothes like us.
They wear thick jackets.
They wear layers of loose-fitting clothes to protect themselves from the sun and blowing dust.
A desert gets ___________ of precipitation each year.
Less than 10 inches
More than 10 inches
Deserts are the ________ habitats on earth.
Wettest
Driest
Deserts are full of plants and animals that
Needs lots of water to live
Don't need much water to live
To stay in the shade animals hide underground or
Among tall trees
Among large rocks
Camels store excess fat in their humps.
True
False
Desert animals are (a) ( sleep during the day and come out to feed at night)
Hot deserts are found along the Tropics of (a) and Capricorn.
Where is the Mojave desert located?
Australia
Africa
Chile
North America
What does it mean when animals are described as nocturnal?
They don't need a lot of water
They sleep during the day and come out at night
They have an internal cooling system that helps them survive in the desert
They hibernate during the winter
.............................. are important, normadic tribe
Bedouins
Antelopes
Both (A) and (B)
None of these
What is the name of the people who live in the desert of the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa?
Arabian people
The Bedouins People
The Mohamed people
What is a Yurt?
A tent-like structure
A type of food.
A car that drives on sand.
A type of desert people
Daytime in a desert is hot, but it is ________________ at night.
Warm
Foggy
Cold
Dry
Which continent is this?
South America
Asia
North America
Europe
Which continent is shown in blue?
Australia
Africa
Europe
South America
The imaginary horizontal line that divides the world between north and south:
Line of Demarcation
Equator
International Date Line
Quadratic formula
Name the desert highlighted in pink.
Atacama
Namib
Syrian
Arabian
Name the desert highlighted in pink.
Arabian
Atacama
Great Victoria
Patagonian
Name the Asian desert highlighted in pink.
Gobi
Negev
Sinai
Taklamakan
Name the African desert highlighted in pink.
Karakum
Patagonian
Tabernas
Kalahari
Name the desert highlighted in pink. It is the largest hot desert on Earth.
Simpson
Sinai
Sonoran
Sahara
Most of the world's hot deserts are located in
The Northern Hemisphere
The Southern Hemisphere
Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer
the Equator
nomadic
Protect by covering
the state of not having something
Moving around a lot
worried or fretted
