Deserts

A  It extracts water vapor from the atmosphere and sucks it into the rock

B  It blocks water from entering the desert

C  It limits the flow of surface water

A  Cold night time temperatures

B  Animal urine

C  Salt

D  Waste from airplanes

A  A meteorite impact

B  A green micro-organisms living in a rock

C  A source of uranium

D  An unknown species of kangaroo rat

A  19 million years old

B  over 119,000 years old

C  over 16,000 years old

D  over 11,000 years old

E  100 years old

A  Oceans

B  Lakes

C  Rivers

D  Mountains

A  The California Current

B  The Philippines

C  The Torval Mountains

D  The Andes Mountains

E  The Humboldt Current

A  57 million years

B  167 million years

C  3,000 years

D  117 million years

E  23 million years

F  2 million years

A  How much Helium 3 is inside pyroxenes

B  Radiometric Carbon 14

C  How much Argon and Neon is present in the granites

D  How much Potassium 40 is inside orthoclase feldspar

A  Volcanic eruption

B  The sudden impact causes earthquakes

C  Flash floods

D  It is so hot all the water evaporates before it hits the ground

E  Nothing there is so little rain to begin with

A  The current comes from the equator, bringing cold water that creates a cold fog, then hot air moves above it, and this prevents air flow making it near impossible to rain in Atacama Desert.

B  The current comes from Antarctica, bringing warm water that dries out preventing rain

C  The current blocks any storms from moving in off the ocean into the landmass.

D  It brings cold water from Antarctica that creates a cold fog, then hot air moves above it, and this prevents air flow making it near impossible to rain in Atacama Desert.

A  40 degrees

B  20 degrees

C  30 degrees

D  15 degrees

E  10 degrees

F  35 degrees

A  Copper accumulates as a salt deposit in hot dry locations.

B  It actually does not relate it is just a coincidence

C  Because of the lack of rain fall, there is no way means to rust or erode the copper.

D  The Atacama formed from a massive volcanic eruption and the volcano left the copper in its wake.

A  316 million years ago

B  10 million years ago

C  50 million years ago

D  150 million years ago

E  5 million years ago

F  350 million years ago

A  50 million years

B  19 million years

C  225 million years

D  405 million years

E  195 million years

A  242-250 million years

B  50 million years

C  1 million years

D  150 million years

E  15 million years

F  225 million years

A  Fossils

B  Thermo luminescence

C  Greenschist

D  Radiometric decay rates

A  It shows there hasn’t been any heavy rain since it formed

B  It shows the presence of an ancient ocean

C  It shows that the land is subsiding

D  It shows that magma has upwelled here in the recent past

A  A little less than 1 centimeter per year

B  2-3 meters per year

C  A little less than 1 millimeter per year

D  A little less than 1 meter per year

E  It has never rained here

A  Atacama Desert, Chile

B  Death Valley, California

C  Sahara Desert, North Africa

D  Great Sandy Desert, Australia