1. By Alannah

2. A desert climate is HOT, so hot that it gets the
nick name of Death Valley and The place from
where there is no return.
People have to live underground to get away
from the heat.
The desert is the driest place on earth. The
average annual rainfall is around 2.5cm of
rain, and the wettest desert has around
10inches of rain a year.
So you can imagine the driest desert wouldn’t
be much fun.

4. Australian deserts Most deserts are found in
The biggest desert in US, Mexico and Australia, but
Australia is the Great they also are found in
Victorian Desert. Africa, Asia, Europe, North
America, South America, Polar
The biggest in the world regions and Oceania.
Is the Sahara desert in North
Africa, it is 3 500 000+
squared miles. Smallest Desert in the world
Is the Carcross Desert
The biggest polar desert Located outside
Is the Antarctic Desert, it Carcross, Yukon, Canada.
reaches up to 5 339 573 It reaches to less than 240
squared miles. Hectares.

5. Most common locations are in:
Australia, US and Mexico.
In The Middle East:
Saudi Arabia, Iraq etc.
In South Africa:
Namibia and Somalia etc.
And in Central Asia:
Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkm
enistan and many more!

6. Plants are a huge part of the desert they Shelta
animals from the intense heat.
Here are the names of some plants:
Sagebrush Barrel Cactus
Creosote Brittle Cactus
Chain fruit Cholla Creosote Bush
Crimson Hedgehog Cactus
Desert Ironwood Jumping Cholla
Joshua Tree Mojave Aster
Ocotillo Palo Verde
Pancake Prickly Pear Cactus
Saguaro Cactus Soap tree Yucca
Triangle – Leaf Bursage

7. The Chain fruit Cholla is a part
of the Opunita family, the
Opunita family are different to
other cacti because they have:
1. Jointed segments
2. Areoles that have minute
barbed spines called glochids
that are easily detachable
3. Leaves are presented on new
joints
4. The seeds in a Opunita have
a pale covering over them
called a aril.

8. The Pancake Prickly Pear Cactus is part of the
Opuntia Family as well. The Pancake Prickly
Pear Cactus can be widely used and is a
versatile cactus.
The Pancake Prickly Pear Cactus can be eaten
or used as a crop.
The Natural Biome to a Pancake Prickly Pear
cactus is the, Sonoran and Mojave desert.

9. Road Runner Cactus Wren
Ostrich Armadillo Lizard
Meerkat Banded Gila Monster
Caracal Bob Cat
Texas Horned Lizard Coyote
Black Widow spider Javelina
Black Scorpion Pygmy Owl

10. The Road Runner is fast! It can run
32 km an Hour. It’s full height is
around 52cm.
Road Runners have 4 toes on each
foot but two face forward and the
other two face backward, and Road
Runners are actually carnivores
and have an other name that is a
Snake Eater.
A Road Runner has black spikey on it’s
head, a sharp beak and a long feathery tail.

11. A Coyote is also known as the Prairie Wolf and an
American Jackal.
Coyotes are canine’s, they are Carnivores, it is in the
Canidae family and their Genus is Canis.
Their height ranges between 106-127cm in length and
are about 57-65cm tall.
Coyotes also come in packs so if you mess with one you
mess with the Pack.

12. Hawk Horned Harvester Mesquite
Lizard Ants Pod

13. Annual
Cactus Sage Bush
Flowers
Insects Lizards
Kit Fox

14. 20% of land is desert and a estimated 1/3 of
the earth is a semi-arid desert.
There are 6 kinds of deserts: low intranet
deserts, cold, salt, artificially created, toxic
and low rainfall deserts.

15. There is about 2000 different varieties of
cacti, and about 1468 different species of desert
animals.
29 species of desert animals live in the Sahara
desert. Mammillaria, Melocactus, Opuntia are
the most common cactus genus.

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