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  Salt

D  Fog

A  A source of uranium

B  A meteorite impact

C  An unknown species of kangaroo rat

D  A green micro-organisms living in a rock

A  19 million years old

B  over 119,000 years old

C  100 years old

D  over 11,000 years old

E  over 16,000 years old

A  Lakes

B  Rivers

C  Oceans

D  Mountains

A  The Torval Mountains

B  The California Current

C  The Philippines

D  The Andes Mountains

E  The Humboldt Current

A  57 million years

B  167 million years

C  3,000 years

D  2 million years

E  117 million years

F  23 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  It is so hot all the water evaporates before it hits the ground

B  The sudden impact causes earthquakes

C  Volcanic eruption

D  Nothing there is so little rain to begin with

E  Flash floods

A  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.

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 Antarctica, bringing warm water that dries out preventing rain

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

A  40 degrees

B  25 degrees

C  35 degrees

D  20 degrees

E  15 degrees

F  30 degrees

A  It actually does not relate it is just a coincidence

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

A  150 million years ago

B  350 million years ago

C  50 million years ago

D  316 million years ago

E  5 million years ago

F  10 million years ago

A  195 million years

B  225 million years

C  19 million years

D  405 million years

E  50 million years

A  15 million years

B  50 million years

C  1 million years

D  225 million years

E  150 million years

F  242-250 million years

A  Greenschist

B  Thermo luminescence

C  Radiometric decay rates

D  Fossils

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 magma has upwelled here in the recent past

D  It shows that the land is subsiding

A  The Furious Forties

B  Tropic of Capricorn

C  The equator

D  Tropic of Cancer

E  Both A and B

A  It has never rained here

B  2-3 meters per year

C  A little less than 1 millimeter per year

D  A little less than 1 centimeter per year

E  A little less than 1 meter per year

A  Sahara Desert, North Africa

B  Death Valley, California

C  Great Sandy Desert, Australia

D  Atacama Desert, Chile