This means that there is nothing to protect it from the sun, so it gets very hot in the day. During the night, there is nothing to hold the warm air near the ground, so the desert cools off very quickly. Anticlines are where layers of stratified rock bend away from each other. Synclines are troughs where the layers dip toward each other from either side. A plain is a large area of flat land.
Plateaus are large flat areas which drop off sharply on at least one side.
The interior layers are the inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust. Yes, during the Mesozoic era. This continent was called Pangaea. It would take about a month for the heat stored in the surface of the Earth to dissipate. When the universe first was formed, the earth was a molten ball.