Which of the following is NOT an alternative name for land on the desert fringes?

What is unusual about the baobab tree?

Regarding desertification and climate change, alongside deserts, what are desert fringes known as.

What is the term used when land gradually turns into desert?

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons for desertification?

How much of the topsoil of Earth has been lost in the last 150 years?

In Australia, how much of the 5 million square kilometres of desert and semi-desert, have been affected by desertification?

What is the result, when vegetation is destroyed and the soil is exposed to the wind and the rain?

What does overgrazing mean?

What is over-cultivation?

What happens to the soil if it is over-cultivated?

Over-cultivation means that trees are often stripped of their branches for use as firewood. What then happens to the tree?

Badia in Eastern Jordan has a major water shortage. How many millimetres of rain fall, on average, per year?

Which of the following is NOT one of the animals herded by nomadic Bedouin, in Badia?

Following the 1991 Gulf War, an influx of which animal, from Iraq, caused overgrazing and desertification in Badia?

In which of the following countries, is desertification NOT a significant problem?

How much of the World’s population either suffer, or are threatened by desertification?

What do scientists think will happen to global temperatures this century?