Deserts

A  It limits the flow of surface water

B  It blocks water from entering the desert

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

A  Animal urine

B  Salt

C  Fog

D  Waste from airplanes

A  A source of uranium

B  A green micro-organisms living in a rock

C  A meteorite impact

D  An unknown species of kangaroo rat

A  over 119,000 years old

B  over 16,000 years old

C  over 11,000 years old

D  19 million years old

E  100 years old

A  Mountains

B  Rivers

C  Oceans

D  Lakes

A  The Philippines

B  The California Current

C  The Torval Mountains

D  The Humboldt Current

E  The Andes Mountains

A  23 million years

B  57 million years

C  117 million years

D  3,000 years

E  2 million years

F  167 million years

A  How much Argon and Neon is present in the granites

B  How much Potassium 40 is inside orthoclase feldspar

C  Radiometric Carbon 14

D  How much Helium 3 is inside pyroxenes

A  Nothing there is so little rain to begin with

B  The sudden impact causes earthquakes

C  Volcanic eruption

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

E  Flash floods

A  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.

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

C  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.

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

A  25 degrees

B  40 degrees

C  35 degrees

D  20 degrees

E  15 degrees

F  30 degrees

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

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

C  It actually does not relate it is just a coincidence

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

A  5 million years ago

B  316 million years ago

C  50 million years ago

D  350 million years ago

E  150 million years ago

F  10 million years ago

A  225 million years

B  19 million years

C  195 million years

D  405 million years

E  50 million years

A  15 million years

B  225 million years

C  150 million years

D  1 million years

E  50 million years

F  242-250 million years

A  Thermo luminescence

B  Radiometric decay rates

C  Greenschist

D  Fossils

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

B  It shows that the land is subsiding

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

D  It shows the presence of an ancient ocean

A  The equator

B  Tropic of Capricorn

C  The Furious Forties

D  Both A and B

E  Tropic of Cancer

A  A little less than 1 meter per year

B  It has never rained here

C  A little less than 1 millimeter per year

D  A little less than 1 centimeter per year

E  2-3 meters per year

A  Great Sandy Desert, Australia

B  Atacama Desert, Chile

C  Sahara Desert, North Africa

D  Death Valley, California