Mountains and deserts: fill in the blanks · Grade 8

The word bank and sentences

Directions: Read each sentence. Choose the best word from the word bank and write it on the line.

• Word bank: cross out each word as you use it
• Atacama · antarctica · Mount Everest ____ rainfall · Gobi
• Himalayas · Andes · Mauna Kea
• 1 Measured from its base on the sea floor, Hawaii's · is taller than
• Everest.
• 2 A desert is defined by low ____, not by heat or sand.
• 3 Fossils of sea creatures have been found high in the ____.
• 4 The · run for about 7,000 kilometers along the western side of
• South America.
• 5 is the largest desert on Earth, because so little snow or rain falls there.
• 6 stands about 8,849 meters above sea level, on the border of
• Nepal and China.
• 7 Some weather stations in the · have gone years without recording any rain.
• 8 Not all deserts are hot: the · can drop far below freezing in winter.