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Lesson 5: The Desert

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    World Geography
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  • What is an oasis
    An area in the desert where there are plants and water
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  • An area of land where evaporation has left a later
    Salt flat
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  • Kalahari has a rich assortment of
    plants and wildlife
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  • What is the Kalahari sometimes refered as
    As a thirstland
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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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  • 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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  • Small or short bushes and trees
    Scrub brush
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  • How many years have the Aboriginal people lived in Australia?
    At least 40 thousand years
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  • Describe the Outback in two words
    Arid and semiarid
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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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  • The ground at the bottom of the river is called
    Riverbed
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  • Dry steambeds that fill the water only in the rainy season are called
    Billabongs
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  • Name one animal that is only found in the Outback
    Emu
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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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  • What did ancestral beings sing about?
    They sang about water holes , the gum trees , riverbeds and sand dunes.
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