Deserts

A  It limits the flow of surface water

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

C  It blocks water from entering the desert

A  Waste from airplanes

B  Animal urine

C  Fog

D  Salt

A  An unknown species of kangaroo rat

B  A source of uranium

C  A meteorite impact

D  A green micro-organisms living in a rock

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  Rivers

B  Oceans

C  Lakes

D  Mountains

A  The Andes Mountains

B  The Philippines

C  The Torval Mountains

D  The California Current

E  The Humboldt Current

A  117 million years

B  167 million years

C  23 million years

D  57 million years

E  2 million years

F  3,000 years

A  How much Helium 3 is inside pyroxenes

B  How much Potassium 40 is inside orthoclase feldspar

C  Radiometric Carbon 14

D  How much Argon and Neon is present in the granites

A  Volcanic eruption

B  The sudden impact causes earthquakes

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

D  Nothing there is so little rain to begin with

E  Flash floods

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

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

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  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  20 degrees

B  30 degrees

C  15 degrees

D  40 degrees

E  35 degrees

F  25 degrees

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

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

C  It actually does not relate it is just a coincidence

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

A  5 million years ago

B  316 million years ago

C  150 million years ago

D  350 million years ago

E  50 million years ago

F  10 million years ago

A  225 million years

B  50 million years

C  405 million years

D  19 million years

E  195 million years

A  50 million years

B  150 million years

C  1 million years

D  225 million years

E  242-250 million years

F  15 million years

A  Thermo luminescence

B  Fossils

C  Greenschist

D  Radiometric decay rates

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

B  It shows that the land is subsiding

C  It shows the presence of an ancient ocean

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

A  Tropic of Capricorn

B  The equator

C  Tropic of Cancer

D  The Furious Forties

E  Both A and B

A  A little less than 1 meter per year

B  It has never rained here

C  2-3 meters per year

D  A little less than 1 centimeter per year

E  A little less than 1 millimeter per year

A  Death Valley, California

B  Great Sandy Desert, Australia

C  Sahara Desert, North Africa

D  Atacama Desert, Chile