Pluvia Loriente

CEIP JOSEP TARRADELLAS

Question: 1

A desert is a hot dry place.

Question: 2

Most deserts are in the hottest countries of the world, but some deserts are cold.

Question: 3

Some deserts are covered with sand, others with stones and rocks.

Question: 4

Snakes, lizards, gerbils and beetles hide in the shade of rocks. Camels live there.

Question: 5

Deserts are so dry that very few plants can grow there.

Question: 6

Many people live in Oases and Semi-desert areas.

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Question: 7

It is a place where there are water all year round. People dig deep wells to reach

water under the ground.

Question: 8

It is dry land but not so as dry as a desert. Many people live there. They keep goats and plant crops in the dry

earth.

Do you know that...?

Why ?

Semi-deserts are turning into deserts.

This is because the world is becoming hotter

and drier.

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Question: 1

Two cold snowy and icy places. Arctic and Antarctic.

Question: 2

They lie around the North and South Poles.

Question: 3

A thick layer of ice which changes its size growing large in winter and shorter in

summer.

Question: 4

Penguins and seals in areas of Antarctica and polar bears in the Arctic.

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Question: 5

Tundra and taiga on the fringes of the Arctic.

Nothing grows in the Antarctic.

Taiga

Question: 6

Native people live near the North Pole: The Inuits and the Sami.

Igloo

Do you know that..? The ice caps are getting thinner.

Why?

This is because the world is becoming hotter

and drier.