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Hillsborough Squares
A Game of X’s and O’s

2. Another Presentation © 2000 - All rights Reserved Mark E. Damon

3. Anita Hugginkiss Ivana Winn Seymour Money Ima B. Utiful1 2 3
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Ivana Winn
Seymour Money
Ima B. Utiful
Lee V. Mediately
Craven Sumfood
Dewey Cheatum
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Sand E. Beaches 7 8 9

4. 1 2 3 X 4 5 6 O 7 8 9 Scoreboard Click Here if X Wins Click Here if
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What is a desert?

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A desert is a vast area of land that receives minimal precipitation and vegetation and includes some rare animals.
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7. What are the four types of deserts and where can they be located?2
What are the four types of deserts and where can they be located?

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The cold desert (Antarctica), hot and dry deserts (Sahara), semi-arid deserts (Caatinga in Brazil), and coastal deserts (Atacama in South America).
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Give some examples of plants and animals that can be found in the desert.

10. 3 Plants- cacti, Joshua tree, prickly pear
Animals- sand rat, coyote, fox, lizard
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11. What is a way that plants retain their water?4
What is a way that plants retain their water?

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Desert plants retain water by having waxy leaves, making it difficult for transpiration to occur.
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13. What did the Desert Protection Bill do in 1994?5
What did the Desert Protection Bill do in 1994?

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The bill allowed monuments such as Death Valley, Joshua Tree and Mojave to become protected national parks.
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Please provide 3+ of how humans are negatively effecting the environment.

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People are driving through deserts leaving tracks, destroying vegetation, water mining from reservoirs, atomic testing, underground aquifiers, and trenching with pipelines, which are all bad for deserts.
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17. What are some endangered species? Name at least 3.7
What are some endangered species? Name at least 3.

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Examples include the gazelle, Oryx, addax, Arabian Tahr, Barbary Sheep, and Asian Houbara Bustard
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19. About how much rain do deserts get? Why are deserts near the equator?8
About how much rain do deserts get? Why are deserts near the equator?

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Deserts receive less than 50 cm of rainfall annually. Deserts receive the most direct heat, drying out the land because they are nearest to the sun.
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21. How many main deserts are in the United States? What are they called?9
How many main deserts are in the United States? What are they called?

22. There are 4 deserts; the Mojave, Great Basin, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan.9
There are 4 deserts; the Mojave, Great Basin, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan.
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Why do deserts have such a large temperature gap between night and day?

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Deserts are so barren that there is no vegetation around to stabilize the environment; heat is not retained
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