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Flash floods - a big killer of humans in desert regions.
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∙ 9y agoThey can create flash floods.
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What erosional agents create desert pavement?
Wind is the primary erosional agent that creates desert pavement. The process is call deflation.
What makes the desert fragile?
Plants in the desert take many years to become established due to low rainfall. When careless people tear up the desert by driving off road it can take many more years for the desert to reestablish the dead vegetation. Driving off road also provides channels for runoff that can cause erosion.
How does the sun affect the desert?
Yes. There are many kinds of pollution in the desert, including runoff from mining waste, radioactive dumpsites, urban sewage and other pollution from desert cities, leakage from toxic waste dumps, particulate matter in the air, and so forth. Many polluting industries are sited in the desert because it's seen as a place where nothing of value exists. People even haul toxic garbage to the desert for illegal dumping.
What is desert that starts with a g?
Arabian Desert Antarctic Desert Atacama Desert
What is the frozen desert?
The Antarctic Desert is a polar or ice desert.
Does runoff from infrequent rainstorms create wadis in the desert?
Yes, wadis, also known as gullies, arroyos or washes, are formed by infrequent, but heavy, rainfall in deserts.
Rainstorms that form over the Pacific Ocean rarely reach?
The Mojave Desert.
Why does the desert have less rain?
Because infrequent rains caused a desert environment to form in the first place.
What creates ripples in desert sand?
wind creates ripples in the sand
How are desert plateaus made?
desert plateaus are made because of heavy rainfall. You may think that it doesn't rain in the desert, but it does. It doesn't rain very often but when it does it usually results in flash flooding. Because there is no runoff, the water causes erosion so there can be runoff. The erosion is what makes the plataeu.
What does the desert elephant eat?
In the desert elephants must be opportunistic. They rely heavily on grasses, especially the roots as a staple of their diet. They will eat other plants when available near water sources or when they spring up after rare rainstorms.
How is the desert wadi formed?
A wadi (also known as a wash, gully, arroyo) is formed when heavy rain hits an area of a desert causing runoff and flash flooding.
What process creates new sand in a desert?
A process called weathering
What is green area in a desert fed by underground water?
an oasis but some are fed by small rivers that form during the few rainstorms of the desertAn Oasis
Which is the closest ocean current to the Sahara Desert?
it is the Atlantic African coastal current which creates high winds, which helps create part of the desert!
What erosional agents create desert pavement?
Wind is the primary erosional agent that creates desert pavement. The process is call deflation.
In the desert what do ephemeral streams?
Ephemeral streams only have water for a brief time following rain or during periods of spring runoff from higher, surrounding mountains.
