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Sand Dunes

Sand dunes are hills of sand formed by the movements of either wind or water. Dunes play an important role in protecting land against heavy waves from the sea, and occur both in coastal and dry areas.

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What is the largest desert sand dune system?

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The largest desert in California is the Mojave Desert.

What plants grow in sand dunes?

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maron grass, cacti etc.

Massive wind blown piles of sand are called?

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The massive wind blown piles of sand are called sand dunes. This is when sands blow into a pile.

What Long sand ridges oriented at right angles to the wind are called dunes?

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Sand dunes that are at right angles to the wind are called Transverse Dunes. They form with weak winds and an abundant supply of sand.

What direction influences the shape and size of a sand dune?

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The wind influences the shape and size of a sand dune.

What are the conditions necessary for the formation of sand dunes?

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formed in deserts from deposits of eroded Sand

What force of nature effects sand dunes?

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wind erosion creates sand dunes

What process is involved in the creation of sand dunes?

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Suspension, which is responsible for moving 1% of all sand to the sand dunes

Impart creep, which is responsible for 4% movement of all sand dune

Saltation, moves intermediate grains

What peak of a sand dune is called?

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Crest :)

How do sand dunes affect beaches?

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Endangered seabirds live in the dunes breeding their young. When people go in the dunes the scare the birds litter smash their eggs.

Sand dunes are formed by this erosional force?

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It is called aeolian erosion

What can cause a sand dune to slowly move into the direction of the wind?

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A sand dune will always move with the prevailing wind (downwind). It would not be able to move into the direction of the prevailing wind (upwind).

What type of erosion form large sand dunes?

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my conclusions are either glacial or solar

Are sand dunes made by chemical weathering or mechanical weathering?

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I believe sand dunes are mechanical.

What are the sand dunes of western desert of southern Africa?

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Why does sand come in different colors?

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Sediment is brought to a location from different areas by water and wind. Of course there would be different ones at a different beach.