Survival in the Sahara Desert by Kathy Kinsner

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Book: Survival in the Sahara Desert
Author: Kathy Kinsner
ISBN: 978-0-02-202937-1

Introduction

1. Which desert is over 3,500,000 square miles?
2. What desert is about the same size of the United States?
3. Over how many countries does the Sahara Desert stretch?
4. Deserts begin as rocks.  True or False

Chapter 1: Plants: Surviving in a Dry Climate

5. What is the name of the plant that has adapted to survive in the desert?
6. Where do Date Palms grow?
7. What do humans use the fruit from a Date Palm for?
8. What do humans use the seeds from a Date Palm for?
9. What do humans use the wood and leaves for?
10. What do humans use the sap from a Date Palm for?

Chapter 2: Animals: Surviving in Extreme Heat

11. They sleep in burrow underground
12. Answers will vary
13. A small rodent
14. 22 miles per hour
15. 10 feet into the air
16. it is a lizard
17. up to 5 feet
18. up to 3 miles
19. They are endanger because people hunt them for their skins and they are losing their land due to farming.
20. They have a pedometer
21.   A) It stores body fat for food, (B) It has long legs to keep its body away from the high heat, (C) its nostrils close during a sandstorm

Chapter 3: People: Surviving in the Desert

22. A nomad is someone who moves from place to place looking for food and water.
23. They are nomadic people who live in the Sahara.
24. It means “people of the veil.”
25. The “Blue Men of the Desert.”
26. The Tuareg
27. They are underground tunnels that carry water.