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Did you know…. Desertification affects nearly 1 billion people! This can cause widespread poverty, starvation, and death. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD1Ff1h_4so. Unit 5: Gradational Processes Ms. Thind. Wind Erosion and Landforms of Desert Areas.

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  1. Did you know… • Desertification affects nearly 1 billion people! • This can cause widespread poverty, starvation, and death. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD1Ff1h_4so

  2. Unit 5: Gradational Processes Ms. Thind Wind Erosion and Landforms of Desert Areas

  3. A desert area is one in which the annual rainfall is not sufficient to maintain a continuous cover of vegetation. Still, with the haphazard occurrence of rainfall and prolonged period of drought, another agent, the wind, has an opportunity to play a major part in the creation of desert landforms. The desert

  4. With few plants to anchor the debris and little vegetation to restrict air movements, the strong winds of the desert are able to whip up the smaller rock fragments and carry them along. This process creates distinct features associated with arid areas.

  5. Sahara Desert Arabian Desert Gobi Desert Kalahari Desert Patagonian Desert Great Victoria Desert Syrian Desert Great Basin Desert Atacama Desert On a map locate and label the following:

  6. Deserts of the world COC Equator COC COC

  7. Landforms left behind by water: • Canyons • Alluvial fans • Wadis • Landforms left behind by wind: - wind cannot move particles larger than sand - Silt and clay will only erode if they are dry Erosion in desert and arid regions

  8. Movement of sand • Strong winds carry light surface materials are carried by suspension • Movement of sand in the desert is largely by saltation

  9. Moving sand can have an abrasive power on existing landforms. • Strongest close to the ground and create features called toadstools.

  10. deflation • Refers to wind blowing away sand, silt and clay in deserts so that underlying rocks become exposed. • The resulting landforms are deep hollows called blowouts and stony landscapes called Badlands.

  11. as wind blows sand over the desert landscape, deposits of sand may collect against some obstruction like a boulder and over time a sand dune will take shape. an effective wind break Sand Dunes

  12. Dune migration • Long gentle slope on windward slope and roll or slide down to the steeper leeward slope called the slip face. • In areas where winds blow the same direction dunes migrate. How can this be a problem? What can be done to solve this problem?

  13. Transverse Barchan Parabolic Longitudinal Types of dunes

  14. transverse dune Longitudinal dune • Abundant sand needed • Continuous sand ridge forms at right angles to wind • Found in deserts where only a thin layer of sand is present • Winds blow continuously in one direction • Long and straight parallel to the wind Types of dunes

  15. Barchan dune Parabolic dune • Crescent shaped • Forms over small boulder • Horns point downwind • Sand blows up the windward slope and slides down the slip face • Crescent shaped • Horns point up wind • Vegetation anchors the horns Types of dunes

  16. Alluvial Fans Wadis Bajadas Playa lakes Canyons Plateau Buttes Mesa Hamadas Bolson Ergs Unique Landforms

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