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Question	Answer
the process by which a liquid changes to a vapor or gas	Evaporation
an area set aside by the government where animals are protected from hunters	Game Reserve
moving around often in search of food; not settled in one place	Nomadic
a dark grey or black volcanic rock that looks like glass	Basalt
an area of land where evaporation has left a layer of salt	Salt Flat
to send out	Radiate
a piece of land sticking out into a bosy of water, so that it is almost surrounded by water	Peninsula
a scientist who studies weather patterns over time	Climatologist
rock formed by magma, or melted rock, that has reached Earth's surface and cooled	Lava Rock
an area of land that is lower than the land around it	Basin
either of two halves of Earth	Hemisphere
a type of plant with pointed leaves, a long stem, and white flowers that grows in dry areas	Yucca
an area of coastal wetland, directly affected by the rise and fall of the tide	Salt Marsh
the ground at the bottom of a river	Riverbed
relating to nomadic Arab tribes of Arabia and North Africa	Bedouin
natural or human processes that turn fertile land into a desert	Desertification
small or short bushes and trees	Scrub Brush
a wide, flat area of land, often higher than surrounding land; a plateau	tableland
an area in the desert where there are plants and water	Oasis
land that is the same elevation as the surface of the sea or ocean	Sea Level
a crack or split in Earth's crust along which movement takes place	Fault Line
describing locations with little precipitation, but with enough moisture to support the growth of grasses, shrubs, and a few scattered trees	Semiarid
a type of mammal that carries its young in a pouch	Marsupial
fuel, such as oil, natural gas, and coal formed in the earth from the remains of living things	Fossil Fuel
an area far from the coast in a country or continent	Interior
a building from which scientist watch and study the sky	Observatory
relating to a geographic pole or the area around it	Polar
the landforms of a piece of land	Terrain
water falling to Earth's surface as rain, hail, snow, or sleet	Precipitation