An area of a hot desert: The Thar Desert: Rajasthan, India

Most people living in this desert are subsistence farmers.

• False

• True

Opportunities include:

• Mining

• Energy generation

• Tourism

• Farming

• Retail

Challenges in The Thar Desert include:

• Culture

• Inaccessibility

• Extremely high temperatures

• Water supply

Thar desert has valuable reserves of minerals used for::

• paper

• pottery

• cement

• fertilisers

the Thar desert is the most densely populated desert in the world

• True

• False

The Thar desert is located in​ ​ (a)   ​ ​ India

• Northwest
• Southwest
• North
• South
• East
• West
• Northeast
• SouthEast

Thar Desert covers ​ (a)   square kilometres

• 200,000
• 100,000
• 100
• 500,000
• 340,000

In 1977 the government-funded Desert Development Programme was started. Its main aims:

• removing water supplies

• restore the ecological balance

• developing and harnessing land

• sand dune stabilisation.

Renewable energy resources include wind and solar energy. Solar energy is being used in Bhaleri to power ​ (a)   .

• water treatment works
• hospitals
• schools
• hotels
• airport

The desert forms a natural boundary between India and ​ (a)   .

• Pakistan
• Bangladesh
• Nepal
• Sri Lanka
• Afghanistan