The cards Question What are hot deserts? Tap to flip Answer Arid areas with low rainfall, generally below 250 mm a year, and high summer temperatures. Question At roughly which latitudes are hot desert ecosystems found? Tap to flip Answer At roughly 30°N and 30°S of the Equator. Question What is a biome? Tap to flip Answer A global land area characterised by its plants, animals and climate. Question What is climate? Tap to flip Answer The average weather conditions of a place over a long period, typically 30 years or more. Question Which factor influences the other physical characteristics of hot deserts? Tap to flip Answer The climate. Question What are the biotic elements of an ecosystem? Tap to flip Answer Its living elements, e.g. plants and animals. Question What are the abiotic elements of an ecosystem? Tap to flip Answer Its non-living elements, e.g. water and nutrients. Question What is interdependence? Tap to flip Answer The connections between components of the environment, where each component depends on or influences the others. Question What is evapotranspiration? Tap to flip Answer The transfer of water to the atmosphere by evaporation from surfaces and transpiration from plants. Question Give one component that is interdependent with the others in a hot desert ecosystem. Tap to flip Answer For example climate, water, soils, plants, animals or people. Question Give one way of showing how biotic and abiotic components are interdependent in a hot desert. Tap to flip Answer For example a food chain, a food web or a nutrient cycle. Question In a nutrient cycle, is litter biotic or abiotic? Tap to flip Answer Abiotic: it is non-living organic material, such as dead leaves and decomposing matter. Question What is an adaptation? Tap to flip Answer An evolutionary change that improves an organism's chance of survival in its environment. Question What does nocturnal mean? Tap to flip Answer Active at night and resting during the day. Question What is biodiversity? Tap to flip Answer The variety of different types of life found in a particular area. Question What is an ecosystem? Tap to flip Answer A community of living organisms and their interactions with their environment. Question What does a camel's hump store? Tap to flip Answer Fat, not water; the camel uses it as nourishment when food is scarce. Question What happens to a camel's hump when the camel uses the fat inside it? Tap to flip Answer It becomes limp and droops; with food and rest it returns to normal. Question The Kalahari Desert is an example of which type of environment? Tap to flip Answer A hot desert. Question What is an arid climate? Tap to flip Answer A climate with little or no rainfall. Question What does indigenous mean? Tap to flip Answer Describes the people or animals that originally lived, and may still live, in a particular country or region. Question What is mineral extraction? Tap to flip Answer The process of removing valuable minerals from the earth. Question Give one development opportunity in the Kalahari Desert. Tap to flip Answer For example mineral extraction, energy, farming or tourism. Question Give one challenge to developing the Kalahari Desert. Tap to flip Answer For example extreme temperatures or water supply. Question Are hot deserts lifeless areas with no real economic potential? Tap to flip Answer No. Deserts can offer significant development opportunities, for example mineral extraction, solar energy, tourism and irrigated farming. Question What is desertification? Tap to flip Answer The process by which land becomes desert because of climate change, deforestation or inappropriate agriculture. Question What is a drought? Tap to flip Answer A long period with little or no rainfall, leading to a shortage of water. Question What is mitigation? Tap to flip Answer Action that reduces the severity or seriousness of something. Question Give one cause of desertification. Tap to flip Answer For example climate change, population growth or the removal of fuelwood. Question Give one strategy used to reduce the risk of desertification. Tap to flip Answer For example soil management or tree planting. Question Does desertification occur only in existing deserts? Tap to flip Answer No. It can happen to any fertile land that becomes increasingly arid. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE Geography Unit Hot deserts Exam boards AQA England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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