2. deserts are really hot in the day and very
cold at night it is so dry there that there
are barely any plant at all.
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3. deserts are really dry and only
have 90 cm of rain a year so
plants have to store the water
they get. When it dose rain in
the desert it comes in the form
of a thunderstorm.
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4. there are only a few
places in the world that
there are deserts and
these are where they
are North Africa,
Mongolia-China,
Southern Africa,
Australia and North
America.
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6. These are only some of the
plants in the desert but
there are even more than
this.
Barrel cactus, pipe cactus,
popcorn flower, morman
tree and fairy duster.
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7. The barrel cactus is obviously in the
cactus family. It can grow up to 5 ft.
high and 2 ft. wide. It’s flower colour
is orange or yellow and it blooms in
summer.
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8. Fairy dusters is one of the plants
in the desert. Its scientific name is
calliandra and it loves the sun and
warmth and will grow in almost
every kind of soil. The fairy
dusters flower is almost a red fluff
ball that can grow to an inch wide.
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9. Addax, camels, fat sand rat, glia monster, great
mouse tailed bat, coyotes, road runner, javelina,
mountain lion, scorpions, kangaroo rat, ground
squirrel, burrowing owl, coopers hawk, elf owl,
diamond back rattlesnake, garter snake,
chuckwalla, California quail, horned toad, desert
big horned sheep, prong horn, rule deer, white
tailed deer, bobcats, tarantula and the golden
eagle.
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10. The golden eagle is in the Accipitridae
family and its wingspan is 150 to
240cm wide. Its scientific name is
Aquila chrysaetos. It eats animals like
rabbits, marmots, ground squirrels,
and large mammals such as foxes, wild
and domestic cats, mountain goats,
ibex, and young deer. www.freedigitalphotos.net
11. The fat sand rat is a mammal
that eats seeds and plants.
The fat sand rat is part of the
gerbil family and its scientific
name is psammony obesus. A
fat sand rat can grow up to 14-
18.5 cm and its tail can grow
to 12-15 cm long. www.Freedigitalphotos.net
12. hawk
Hognose snake
toad
rabbit
spider
mouse
Grass
This is a typical food web
in the desert
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13. sun grass
mouse snake
hawk
A food chain starts with the sun and goes onto a producer
then the consumer 1 is the mouse eats the grass the snake is
consumer 2 and it eats the mouse then the hawk is consumer
3 because it eats the snake
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14. The biggest desert in the world is the
Sahara desert and it is 9,065,000
square kilometres. and deserts cover
about one fifth of the earth which is
nearly this much of the earth.
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15. The biggest cold desert in the world
is Antarctica.
In the desert most animals
don’t need to drink water
because most of their
moisture from the plants
they eat.
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