Deserts of the World Trivia Word Search

Chile's coastal desert is considered the driest non-polar place on Earth.

Formerly called the Wahiba Sands, this desert lies in eastern Oman.

This desert in northern-central Chad has yielded some of the earliest known hominin fossils.

Covering most of Nevada, the Great _ _ _ _ _ Desert is a cold desert ringed by mountain ranges.

This Sudanese desert sits inside a great bend of the Nile River.

This desert in Kenya's arid north lies not far south of the Ethiopian border.

This coastal desert in northern Peru is known for its shifting sand dunes near Piura.

Near Amboseli, close to the Tanzanian border, lies this Kenyan desert.

This desert plateau in Inner Mongolia, China, is home to Genghis Khan's mausoleum.

Covered in ice, this is technically the largest desert in the world by area.

Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa share this semi-arid desert basin.

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan share this 'red sand' desert between two great rivers.

Northeastern Sudan holds this desert between the Nile and the Red Sea hills.

One of the deserts closest to Beijing, this Inner Mongolian desert is a major source of China's spring sandstorms.

Red sand dunes define this desert in central Australia, crossed by tracks like the French Line.

Western Australia's _ _ _ _ _ _ Sandy Desert lies south of its larger namesake.

A Pakistani desert region and district in Balochistan share this name.

The Great _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Desert is Australia's largest, named for a British queen.

Nicknamed the 'Empty _ _ _ _ _ _ _,' this is the world's largest continuous sand desert, spanning Saudi Arabia and neighbors.

This desert in Pakistan's Punjab has a name built from the Turkic word for 'sands' plus the Persian suffix for 'land.'

Turkmenistan's vast sandy desert takes up most of the country.

Spanning Syria, Jordan, and Iraq, this desert covers much of the Fertile Crescent's edges.

Along Somalia's northwestern coast lies this hot low-lying desert.

Niger's Tin _ _ _ _ _ _ Desert lies in the remote southeast, part of the wider Sahara.

This volcanic 'sea of sand' surrounds an active volcano on the Indonesian island of Java.

This sandy stretch of the Sahara covers parts of Niger and Chad.

China's dried-up salt lake, once fed by the Tarim River, sits within this desert basin in Xinjiang.

Often called Turkey's only true desert, this arid region lies near Konya in central Anatolia.

This Central Australian desert is named after an explorer who vanished while crossing it in 1874.

Southern Israel's arid region is home to this desert and its famous crater formations.

Wyoming is home to the aptly named _ _ _ Desert, known for its dunes and badlands.

This desert lies between the Indus and Jhelum rivers in Pakistan's Punjab.

This oasis city in eastern Xinjiang, China, sits near the Gobi Desert and is famed for its sweet melons.

Sometimes called the 'Ukrainian Sahara,' this sandy area is one of Europe's largest.

Spain's Bardenas _ _ _ _ _ _ badlands, in Navarre, has served as a filming location for many productions.

A sea of reddish sand dunes, this desert lies in the northern Arabian Peninsula.

This coastal desert in southern Africa is famous for towering red dunes at Sossusvlei.

This desert east of Jerusalem descends toward the Dead Sea.

This small desert straddles the Kazakhstan-Russia border near the Caspian Sea.

The world's largest hot desert stretches across most of North Africa.

Antarctica's McMurdo Dry _ _ _ _ _ _ _ are so arid that some have seen no rainfall in millions of years.

Argentina's smaller companion desert to the vast Patagonian steppe carries this name.

This Chinese desert near Shapotou is crossed by a railway protected with straw checkerboard sand barriers.

Near Skardu, Pakistan, this high-altitude cold desert of dunes sits amid the Karakoram mountains.

Australia's Great _ _ _ _ _ Desert lies in the northwest and includes rocky ranges and dune fields.

This Brazilian park of orange sand dunes and clear-water springs lies in Tocantins state.

Djibouti's Grand _ _ _ _ Desert is a flat, salt-crusted plain that has hosted car speed-record attempts.

Also called Egypt's Western Desert, this desert extends into Libya and Sudan.

A semi-arid region of South Africa, this desert is known for its vast, sparse landscapes and flat-topped hills.

This Ethiopian and Eritrean depression ranks among the hottest inhabited places on Earth.

Named for its chalk-rock formations shaped like mushrooms, this Egyptian desert near Farafra is simply called this color.

Colombia and Venezuela share La _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Desert on a peninsula jutting into the Caribbean.

Covered almost entirely by an ice sheet, this island territory in the North Atlantic counts as a polar desert.

Egypt's triangular peninsula between two seas is also a desert of the same name.

Almeria, Spain, is home to this arid desert often used as a Western movie filming backdrop.

This remote part of the Sahara in Mauritania and Mali takes its name from an Arabic phrase for 'the void.'

This semi-arid desert steppe lies in Zaragoza province, in Spain's Aragon region.

Egypt's desert between the Nile and the Red Sea, distinct from its western counterpart, is simply called this.

This Chinese desert, home to the world's tallest stationary sand dunes, is named _ _ _ _ _ _ Jaran.

This pocket of orange sand dunes lies along Senegal's Atlantic coast, between Dakar and Saint-Louis.

This cold desert covers much of Mongolia and northern China.

Afghanistan's Dasht-e-_ _ _ _ _, nicknamed the 'Desert of Death,' lies in the country's southwest.

Central Iran's great salt desert is called the Dasht-e _ _ _ _ _.

This desert in Australia's Northern Territory is home to one of the world's most remote gold mines.

Known as the Dasht-e _ _ _, this Iranian desert has recorded some of Earth's hottest surface temperatures.