Climate Change: Winners and Losers

Lesson 4: Desert Belts


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Use the list of words below to summarize the lesson on Earth's climate history. You will need to use some words more than once:
cooler, desert, desert belts, desertification, Dust Bowl, Equator, moisture, Northern Hemisphere, rain, rain forest, rise, Southern Hemisphere, warmer

1) Any place on Earth that averages less than 10 inches of rain a year is called a  ____________________ . (Page 1)

2) There are bands of deserts that circle the planet. One is in the ____________________ and the other is in the ____________________ These regions are called ____________________. (
Page 1)

3) __________________________ air is less dense than __________________________ air, so it tends to __________________________ up into the atmosphere. (Page 2)

4) __________________________ air can hold more __________________________ than __________________________ air. (
Page 2)

5) Electromagnetic (EM) radiation from the Sun strikes the Earth most directly at the __________________________ . (Page 3)

6) When air cools in the atmosphere, it loses its ability to hold __________________________. The __________________________ condenses into water droplets and falls back to Earth as __________________________. (
Page 3)

7) Much of the land along the Equator is  ____________________ . (
Page 3)

8) ___________________ occurs when land suitable for farming becomes too dry to grow crops and turns into ___________________. (
Page 3)

9) In the 1930s, changing climate and inappropriate farming methods led to massive sand and dust storms in many areas of Kansas and Oklahoma. This region of the country was often called the ___________________ . (
Page 3)



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Last Updated: January 22, 2022
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