Desert streams has more flash floods than the ones in humid locations. In other words, desert streams only get their water from rain.
In historical terms, this would be called a colony, but currently this name is no longer used and there are no places actually known as "colonies".
The current political term for this is a "territory": this is the correct answer, one example are the overseas territories of France.
Two friends are reading books. Jimmy reads a book with 21,356 words. His friend Bob reads a book with one-and-a-half times as many words. Which expression represents the number of words Bob reads?
21,356 x 2
21,356 x one fourth
21,356 x one half
21,356 x one and one half