CEIA ADULTOS SAN LUIS ERIKA STEPPES C.

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DATE: MONDAY, AUGUST 6TH.

EXTREME CLIMATES - ATACAMA

The hottest place in the world is Dallol, in the Sahara desert in Ethiopia. The average temperature here is 34.4 C. the driest place of Earth is the Atacama Desert in Chile. The Atacama Desert is about 950 kilometers long. It lies along the coast of Chile between Antofagasta in the south, Arica in the north, with the Pacific Ocean to the west and the mountains of the Andes to the east. Some of the desert extends high up into the Andes. Desert are usually very hot, but the Atacama Desert is different - each day the average temperatures are from 0to 25 C. Sometimes, warms winds around the equator in the Pacific, change the weather all over the world. Even the Atacama Desert can have rain storms at these times. In the mountain parts of the desert, high in the Andes, it can snow. But in some parts of Atacama water never falls. Between 1371 and 1971 a period of 400 years there wasnt any rain in some parts of the desert. How does this happen? The Atacama Desert is to the west of the Andes Mountain. We south east winds from the Atlantic travel across the land and the rainforests of Brazil. They carry water in clouds. When the winds hit the Andes, they move up into colder air and drop their water as rain. So the rainfall on the east side of the Andes is very high. There is enough water to feed the Amazon River and all the rainforests. The Atacama lies in the rain shadow of the Andes. The opposite thing happens on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, in the Pacific Ocean. The south east wind arrives, and hits a mountain called Mount Waiale-ale. The clouds break and the rain falls. It can rain for 350 days a year on this island. 1. - Read the text. What is special about these places? a) Dallol B) The Atacama Desert. C)The island Kauai

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2. - Find these words in the text. What do they mean? STORM PLAIN AVERAGE TEMPERATURE WIND MOUNTAIN ISLAND CLOUD DRY

3. - Write the directions on the compass.

SOUTH 4.-Read the text again and answer the questions. a) Where is the hottest place in the world? b) What is the special about the Atacama Desert? c) Where is it? d) How long is it? e) What is the average temperature in the Atacama Desert? f) What direction do the clouds come from? g) Why doesnt the rain fall in the Atacama?

CEIA ADULTOS SAN LUIS ERIKA STEPPES C. COQUIMBO h) Does it rain a lot in a rain shadow? i) Where is Kauai? j) What is Wai- ale-ale?

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