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Lesson 5: The Desert
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What is an oasis
An area in the desert where there are plants and water
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Name a plant that can survive in the desert.
Cactus
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How do you assess the dryness of place?
By calling scientists to do research
By how much it doesn't rain in a year
By measuring how many inches of precipitation it gets in a y
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Why does it some impossible that any creature can live in the Outback?
It's too dry
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In the desert it is very ___ during the day, and ____ at night.
hot, cool
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What did ancestral beings sing about?
They sang about water holes , the gum trees , riverbeds and sand dunes.
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Kalahari has a rich assortment of
plants and wildlife
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Name 7 animals that live in the desert.
camel, coyote, rattle snake, kangaroo , bird , fox etc.
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Name one animal that is only found in the Outback
Emu
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Describe the Outback in two words
Arid and semiarid
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Why do camels have wide feet?
To help them walk on the sand.
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Camels have long eyelashes to protect their _______.
eyes
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A cactus can survive in the desert because it has a special __________.
Water system
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Trivia question : Name 5 ways to survive in the desert
any
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What happened to the ancestral beings once the earth was created?
They disappeared into nature
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When a light shower falls over a dry desert area , most of the rain evaporates before it touches the ground because the..
air is dry
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Define a Marsupial
It's a type of mammal that carries its young in a pouch
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What's the myth according to Aboriginal people?
They believe the world was created during dreamtime. A time before time.
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How did the San people learn how to save water
They use ostrich eggs as storage containers
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How many years have the Aboriginal people lived in Australia?
At least 40 thousand years
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Where do cactus grow?
In hot and dry places
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What is special about plants and animals that live in a desert?
They have ways to survive without much water.
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Camels store _____ in the hump and use it for energy.
fat
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Name one feature hot and cold deserts share
There is a dramatic change between daytime and nighttime temperatures
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What is the Kalahari sometimes refered as
As a thirstland
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What does nomadic mean?
Moving around often in search of food , not settled in one place
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Dry steambeds that fill the water only in the rainy season are called
Billabongs
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What do desert skies often look like?
There are a lot of clouds
They're blue
They're are cloudless
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What happens when temperatures are very high?
Evaporation speeds up
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Deserts near the equator are very
Hot
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Where does a cactus get water from?
It gets water from the ground.
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Small or short bushes and trees
Scrub brush
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The ground at the bottom of the river is called
Riverbed
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An area of land where evaporation has left a later
Salt flat
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When drought comes , what do the San people do?
They dig up the shells with water so they have water supply
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