Deserts

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

B  It limits the flow of surface water

C  It blocks water from entering the desert

A  Salt

B  Waste from airplanes

C  Animal urine

D  Cold night time temperatures

A  A green micro-organisms living in a rock

B  A source of uranium

C  An unknown species of kangaroo rat

D  A meteorite impact

A  19 million years old

B  over 16,000 years old

C  100 years old

D  over 119,000 years old

E  over 11,000 years old

A  Rivers

B  Mountains

C  Oceans

D  Lakes

A  The Andes Mountains

B  The California Current

C  The Torval Mountains

D  The Humboldt Current

E  The Philippines

A  2 million years

B  57 million years

C  167 million years

D  117 million years

E  3,000 years

F  23 million years

A  How much Helium 3 is inside pyroxenes

B  How much Potassium 40 is inside orthoclase feldspar

C  How much Argon and Neon is present in the granites

D  Radiometric Carbon 14

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

B  Volcanic eruption

C  Flash floods

D  The sudden impact causes earthquakes

E  Nothing there is so little rain to begin with

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

B  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.

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

A  10 degrees

B  35 degrees

C  15 degrees

D  30 degrees

E  40 degrees

F  20 degrees

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

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

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

D  It actually does not relate it is just a coincidence

A  10 million years ago

B  150 million years ago

C  350 million years ago

D  5 million years ago

E  316 million years ago

F  50 million years ago

A  50 million years

B  195 million years

C  225 million years

D  405 million years

E  19 million years

A  150 million years

B  242-250 million years

C  50 million years

D  225 million years

E  15 million years

F  1 million years

A  Thermo luminescence

B  Fossils

C  Greenschist

D  Radiometric decay rates

A  It shows the presence of an ancient ocean

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

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 millimeter per year

B  A little less than 1 centimeter per year

C  It has never rained here

D  A little less than 1 meter per year

E  2-3 meters per year

A  Great Sandy Desert, Australia

B  Death Valley, California

C  Atacama Desert, Chile

D  Sahara Desert, North Africa