Desert Biome Project MR
Desert Biome by Maria Rodriguez
Desert Description
Locations is in Australia, Arabian Peninsula, Mexico/ S.W USA, S.W. Africa, Argentina, South America, North Africa, Indian, Pakistan, Peru, Chile, China, Iran, Afghanistan, Middle East, Antartica
General Charateristics
The major types of deserts are
- Hot and Dry
- Semiarid
- Coastal
- Cold
Abiotic Factors
Desert Weather, Climate, Temperature, and Preciptition
A hot desert doesn't get that much rain a year it get about a 1in. (2.5 cm.) per year ad the annual temperature is 64 degrees Fahrenheit (18 degrees Celsius). The ground in a desert is super hot the reason is that the sun rays shine directly overhead.
Landforms
A desert has different kinds of landforms like a mesa, canyons, plateau, alluvial fan, and butte. The Grand Canyon is located in the middle of a national park also can be considered a desert the river that runs through it is the Colorado River.
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Cailfonia
This is a picture of Death Valley it is considered one of the most breathtaking expanses that you will ever have seen in the nature of the Untied States
Arizona
This picture is of the Painted Desert of Arizona it is 93,500 acres long the most visited are of the desert is the eastern end about 115 miles east of Flagstaff it includes a Petrified Forest
Utah
This show part of one the landforms in a desert called the Mojave desert in expand through California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah that expand 25,000 square miles
Biotic Factors
Animals
Some animals include Armadillo Lizard, Banded Gila Monster, Bobcat, Cactus Wren, Coyote, Desert Bighorn Sheep, Desert Kangaroo Rat, Desert Tortoise, Cactus Ferruginoug Pygmy, Sonoran Desert Toad, Sonoran Pronghorn Antelope, and Thorny Devil
Plants
The plant a desert has are Brittle Bush, Common Saltbush, Creosote Bush, Joshua Tree Mojave Aster, and Triangle- leaf Bursage
Thorny Devil
These animals eat ants they a sit and wait for that ants to come out I wonder how they don't sting them
Camel
A camel a long eyelashes so that it keeps that sand out of it's eyes
Cactus
Did you know that a cactus stores it's water so that when it needs it is there
Ecological Concern or Issues
Heavy rains can caused flash floods and landslides that kill people. Wildfires are also part of catastrophic events. Vehicles are part of human impact that run over soil that can caused and crave tracks that can stay there for many years that causes vegetation to die.