Deserts

A  It blocks water from entering the desert

B  It limits the flow of surface water

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

A  Salt

B  Waste from airplanes

C  Fog

D  Animal urine

A  A meteorite impact

B  An unknown species of kangaroo rat

C  A source of uranium

D  A green micro-organisms living in a rock

A  over 16,000 years old

B  over 11,000 years old

C  100 years old

D  19 million years old

E  over 119,000 years old

A  Rivers

B  Lakes

C  Mountains

D  Oceans

A  The Humboldt Current

B  The California Current

C  The Andes Mountains

D  The Philippines

E  The Torval Mountains

A  3,000 years

B  57 million years

C  2 million years

D  23 million years

E  167 million years

F  117 million years

A  How much Helium 3 is inside pyroxenes

B  How much Argon and Neon is present in the granites

C  How much Potassium 40 is inside orthoclase feldspar

D  Radiometric Carbon 14

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

B  Flash floods

C  Nothing there is so little rain to begin with

D  Volcanic eruption

E  The sudden impact causes earthquakes

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

D  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.

A  25 degrees

B  35 degrees

C  40 degrees

D  30 degrees

E  20 degrees

F  15 degrees

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

B  It actually does not relate it is just a coincidence

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

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

A  10 million years ago

B  350 million years ago

C  5 million years ago

D  150 million years ago

E  316 million years ago

F  50 million years ago

A  195 million years

B  19 million years

C  405 million years

D  225 million years

E  50 million years

A  15 million years

B  150 million years

C  50 million years

D  242-250 million years

E  1 million years

F  225 million years

A  Greenschist

B  Radiometric decay rates

C  Thermo luminescence

D  Fossils

A  It shows that the land is subsiding

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

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

D  It shows the presence of an ancient ocean

A  Tropic of Capricorn

B  Tropic of Cancer

C  Both A and B

D  The Furious Forties

E  The equator

A  2-3 meters per year

B  A little less than 1 centimeter per year

C  It has never rained here

D  A little less than 1 millimeter per year

E  A little less than 1 meter per year

A  Atacama Desert, Chile

B  Death Valley, California

C  Great Sandy Desert, Australia

D  Sahara Desert, North Africa