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29 Cards in this Set
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desert
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a place that is very dry
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sahara
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runs from Atlantic Ocean to Red Sea, largest, hottest desert in Africa
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desert
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a place that is very dry
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sahara
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runs from Atlantic Ocean to Red Sea, largest, hottest desert in Africa
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Kalahari
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Southern Africa, arid to semi-arid, not a true desert
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Gobi
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Mongolia, Asia, cold desert
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Mojave
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US: NV, CA, UT, AZ, Death Valley,two fault lines
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Chihuahuan
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US/Mexican border, made of basin and mountain ranges
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Arabian
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Arabian peninsula (Yemen, Persian Gulf, Oman, Jordan, Iraq)
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Patagonian
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Cold desert, shrub steppe, in Argentina
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Atacama
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Chile, south America, composed of salt, sand and lava
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Sonoran
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AZ, CA, Mexican peninsula
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Australian outback
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North Eastern part of Australia
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Precipitation
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Moister in the form of rain, snow, hail, or sleet
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Adaptation
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Oasis
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location in a desert where there is plenty of drinking water and plants live
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Nocturnal
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Active or awake at night or taking place at night
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desertification
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growth or expansion of deserts due to human activities
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Semi-arid
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10-12 inches of annual precipitation, supports only short grass
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Aborigine
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Native people who originally settled/lived in an area
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Marsupial
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A mammal that carries its young in a pouch by its abdomen
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Fault line
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crack in the earth's outer crust along which movement takes place
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Basalt
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forms when volcanic rocks cools, dark, black and looks like glass
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Habitat environment
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Plants and animals live in, or that has adapted to live there
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Fennec
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Foxes that uses its large ears to keep cool in deserts
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Guanaco
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Small desert camel without a hump
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Protoceratops
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Extinct plant-eating dinosaurs that lived in the Gobi desert area
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Emu
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Large bird, found in outback, can't fly
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Rhea
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Smaller than ostrich, hunted by Tehuelches
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