10 Terms
Home > Industry/Domain > Natural environment > Deserts
Deserts
Terms in relation to a type of cimate that has high average temperature, low average annual rainfall, and very few vegetation.
Industry: Natural environment
Add a new termContributors in Deserts
Deserts
Bajada
Natural environment; Deserts
A broad, sloping depositional deposit caused by the coalescing of alluvial fans.
Hogback
Natural environment; Deserts
An eroded, steeply tilted ridge of resistant rocks with equal slopes on the sides.
Hoodoo
Natural environment; Deserts
A column or pillar of bizarre shape caused by differential erosion on rocks of different hardness.
Arizona upland desert
Natural environment; Deserts
That elevated portion of the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona characterised by Saguaro Cactus.
Black Rock Desert
Natural environment; Deserts
A subdivision of the Great Basin Desert located in northwestern Nevada just northeast of Pyramid Lake.
