Flashcards: Ergs

The Great Victoria Desert, an interim Australian bioregion, is a sparsely populated desert area in Western Australia and South Australia.

Erg Chebbi (Arabic: عرق الشبي‎‎) is one of Morocco's two Saharan ergs – large seas of dunes formed by wind-blown sand.

The Kyzylkum Desert (Uzbek: Qizilqum/Қизилқум, قىزىلقۇم; Kazakh: Қызылқұм/Qızılqum, قىزىلقۇم), also spelled Qyzylqum, is the 16th largest desert in the world.

An erg (also sand sea or dune sea, or sand sheet if it lacks dunes) is a broad, flat area of desert covered with wind-swept sand with little or no vegetative cover.

The Namib is a coastal desert in southern Africa.

The Ordos Desert, also known as the Mu Us Desert, (simplified Chinese: 鄂尔多斯沙漠; traditional Chinese: 鄂爾多斯沙漠; pinyin: È'ěrduōsī Shāmò) is a desert and steppe region lying on a plateau in the south of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China (centered ca. 39°N 109°E / 39°N 109°E).

The Tengger Desert (Mongolian: Тэнгэр цөл, lit. Sky Desert, Chinese: 腾格里沙漠; pinyin: Ténggélǐ Shāmò) is an arid natural region that covers about 36,700 km2 and is mostly in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in China.

The Taklamakan Desert /ˌtæk.

The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a large, arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent that forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan.

The Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum and Gara-Gum (Turkmen: Garagum, pronounced [ɡaɾaˈɡum]; Russian: Караку́мы, tr. Karakumy; IPA: [kərɐˈkumɨ];), is a desert in Central Asia.

The Simpson Desert is a large area of dry, red sandy plain and dunes in Northern Territory, South Australia and Queensland in central Australia.

The Ténéré (Berber: Tiniri, literally: desert, wilderness) is a desert region in the south central Sahara.

The Gibson Desert, an interim Australian bioregion, covers a large dry area in the state of Western Australia and is still largely in an almost "pristine" state.

The Gran Desierto de Altar is one of the major sub-ecoregions of the Sonoran Desert, located in the State of Sonora, Northwest Mexico.

The Rub' al Khali (Arabic: الربع الخالي‎‎ ar-Rubʿ al-Ḫālī, "Empty Quarter") is the largest contiguous sand desert (erg) in the world, encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula.

The Grand Erg Occidental (Arabic: العرق الغربي الكبير‎‎, al-ʿIrq al-Gharbī al-Kabīr), (also known as the Western Sand Sea) is the second largest erg in northern Algeria after the Grand Erg Oriental.

The Erg Iguidi (Arabic: عرق إيڭيدي‎‎), is a large erg in the area of Tindouf in southwestern Algeria extending into northern Mali and Mauritania.

The Grand Erg Oriental (English: 'Great Eastern Sand Sea') is a large erg or "field of sand dunes" in the Sahara Desert.

The Murzuq Desert, Idehan Murzuq, Idhan Murzuq, (also Murzaq, Murzuk, Marzuq and Murzak), is an erg in southwestern Libya with a surface of approximately 58,000 km2.

The Ubari Desert, Idehan Ubari, Idehan Awbari or Ubari Erg is an erg in the hyper-arid Fezzan region of southwestern Libya with a surface of approximately 58,000 km².

The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a plateau in South America, covering a 1,000-kilometre (600 mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains.

The Erg of Bilma is a Dune Sea (Erg) in the Ténéré desert region of the south central Sahara Desert.

The Erg Chech (Arabic: عرق شاش‎‎), is a large erg in southwestern Algeria and northern Mali.

The Issaouane Erg (also called Issaouane-N-Irrararene) is an approximately 38,000 km2 erg (sand sea) in Algeria's portion of the Sahara desert, located at 27°50′N 7°14′E / 27.