What can we learn by exploring the desert ? Amazing Words

1. What can we learn by exploring the desert?Amazing Words

2. A Walk in the Desert

3. arid • ar - id • Something that is arid is very, very dry. • Deserts are arid because they don’t get much rain. • The air in your house in the winter might be arid because the heat is on all the time.

4. landform • land - form • A landform is the shape formed on land. • Landforms are things like hills, mountains, lakes, and deserts. • The landforms in Arizona include mountains and desert, as well as rivers.

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6. precipitation • pre-cip-i-ta-tion • Precipitation means any kind of rain, snow, hail, or other form of water that comes down from the clouds to the ground. • A desert area is dry because it gets very little precipitation. • Many kinds of trees that grow in forests need a lot of precipitation.

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8. dunes • dunes • A dune is a hill of sand in a desert. Dunes are formed when the wind blows the sand. • That dune wasn’t there last time we came to this beach. • The dunes in a desert shift and change.

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10. ledge • ledge • A ledge is a shelf. • If you are in the desert, you might see a coyote up on a ledge. • There is a toy on the window ledge.

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12. haven • ha -ven • A haven is a safe place. • A big cactus is a haven for lots of animals. • Your school is a haven for you during a big rainstorm.

13. discovery • dis – cov – er - y • A discovery is something someone finds out for the first time. • You made a discovery about school the first day you came. • When Iris first moved, she made lots of new discoveries about the country.

14. forbidding • for – bid - ding • Something that is forbidding seems dangerous and scary. • Even your familiar schoolroom can seem forbidding and strange at night. • Many places that seem forbidding at night are not scary during the day.