Desert Word Search
This desert word search covers forty things from the driest places on Earth: sand and dune, the cactus and the yucca, the camel, roadrunner and Gila monster, and the great deserts themselves, the Sahara, Gobi, Mojave and Atacama.
A desert is defined by how little rain it gets, usually less than about ten inches a year, not by how hot it is. By that measure the largest desert on Earth is Antarctica. The Atacama in Chile is the driest desert outside the poles, and some of its weather stations have never recorded rain at all. The Sahara is the largest hot desert, nearly as big as the United States.
A dromedary has one hump and a Bactrian camel has two, and neither hump holds water; it stores fat the animal can live on when food is scarce. The roadrunner can sprint at about 20 miles an hour and catches lizards and even rattlesnakes. The Gila monster of the Sonoran Desert is one of very few venomous lizards, and a substance found in its saliva led to a diabetes medicine approved in 2005.
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Desert has.
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In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
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- Agave
- Arid
- Arroyo
- Atacama
- Bedouin
- Butte
- Cactus
- Camel
- Caravan
- Coyote
- Dromedary
- Drought
- Dune
- Dust Devil
- Fennec
- Gila Monster
- Gobi
- Jackrabbit
- Kalahari
- Meerkat
- Mesa
- Mesquite
- Mirage
- Mojave
- Namib
- Nomad
- Oasis
- Prickly Pear
- Rattlesnake
- Roadrunner
- Sagebrush
- Sahara
- Sand
- Scorpion
- Sonoran
- Thirst
- Tortoise
- Tumbleweed
- Vulture
- Yucca