Directions: Fill out Cornell Notes below on details about the Sahara Desert while watching “Man vs.
Wild” episode or use SQWORL of websites.
Questions or Main Ideas:
What is weather like?
What is most likely to kill you?
Tips to survive
Notes:
-Hot and dry, temperatures can reach 130 degrees Fahrenheit, can be windy with
strong sandstorms, little rainfall per year (almost never rains)
-Dehydration and a heat stroke are the two most common ways of dying because
they are the most common ways of dying in the sahara desert.
-Eating often
-Eating bitter foods
-Fat tail scorion biting you because of
-Cover your head to stay cool by making a head dress.
-Eat little and often.
-Keep the water in your mouth and throat to keep your mouth and throat moist.
-Look for an oasis
-Lean back and take big strides while running down the sandoons
-Search for shade to stay cool
-Cover your eyes with ash to block glares from the sun
-Travel at dawn and dusk
-look for dester nomads
-make rock walls to keeps warm during the night
-look for the atlas mountains
-You can read the sandoons by the steep sid and the shallower side.
dew trap
date palm trees
-water
-flint
-desert gourd for medical uses.
-Calotropis plants are poisonous, can kill warts
-hamadas the rockey side of the desert
 -Berbers, the african desert nomads, are masters at desert survival -- They can
read the sand dunes

(3-5 pictures of elements of Sahara Desert)

(Summary of Notes)

Overall, I’ve learned that the top three ways to

survine in the dessert are stay hydrated, cover your
head and search for food.