Desert

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Desert

• By Lydia, Nicole, Scott, and Wesley

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Deserts
Deserts cover about one fifth of the earth's land
area. The desert is a harsh environment with very
little rainfall and extreme temperatures. Desert
plant life is not abundant neither is animal
life. Deserts are very dry regions with limited
plant and animal life. The biggest desert is
northern Africas Sahara Desert. Some deserts get
both very hot during the day and very cold during
the night, when temperatures can drop well below
freezing. Some deserts, however, are always cold
for example, the Gobi Desert in Asia, and the
desert on the continent of Antarctica.
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Animals
Different animals live in the different types of
deserts. Animals that live in the desert have
adaptations to cope with lack of water, the
extreme temperatures , and the shortage of food.
To avoid daytime heat, many desert animals are
nocturnal they burrow beneath the surface or
hide in the shade during the day, emerging at
night to eat. Many desert animals do not have to
drink at all they get all the water they need
from their food. Most desert animals are small.
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Desert Animals

• Black Widow spider
• Rattle snake
• Veiled Chameleon
• Bilby
• Tarantula
• Vulture
• Roadrunner
• Sandfish
• Camel

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Camel
Tarantula
Jumping gerbil
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Desert Plant Life

• The Mexican Poppy Flower
• Cactus
• Flowered Cactus
• A century plant (produces a flower once a
  lifetime.)
• Welwitschia plant

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Interesting Facts

• Some deserts have hyenas.The hyenas search for
  there food they lay low until they sense,hear,or
  see something coming.
• The desert is a place where some animals come out
  in the day and some come out at night .The
  reasons are if one of the little animals come
  out and a big animal sees it the other animal
  the other animal that is bigger will have 90
  at eating the other creature.
• Sometimes the female scorpion kills and eats
  the male scorpion after they have mated.
• Animals die every day when theyre out in the
  desert because of starvation, to much heat, and
  being some animals pray.