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Desert Biome: Climate, Flora, and Fauna

Deserts are hot biomes that receive little rainfall. Plants and animals in deserts have adapted to the harsh climate through mechanisms like storing water, remaining underground during the day, and obtaining water from other plants. Common desert animals include snakes, foxes, and lizards. Plants like cacti survive through long roots that reach underground water sources. Seasons in deserts are generally warm, and temperatures fluctuate greatly between night and day. Humans negatively impact desert ecosystems through activities like poaching, road construction, and desertification. Oases provide rare areas in deserts where water is available and plants can grow.

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Desert Biome: Climate, Flora, and Fauna

Deserts are hot biomes that receive little rainfall. Plants and animals in deserts have adapted to the harsh climate through mechanisms like storing water, remaining underground during the day, and obtaining water from other plants. Common desert animals include snakes, foxes, and lizards. Plants like cacti survive through long roots that reach underground water sources. Seasons in deserts are generally warm, and temperatures fluctuate greatly between night and day. Humans negatively impact desert ecosystems through activities like poaching, road construction, and desertification. Oases provide rare areas in deserts where water is available and plants can grow.

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What is a

Biome?
A biome is a geographic area
characterized by specific kinds of
plants and animals. Deserts, tropical
rainforests, and tundra are all types
of biomes. In the desert biome many
organisms have learned to adapt to
the hot climate and lack of
supplements.
A Desert’s
Characteristics
Climate Seasons
Animals Adaptations
Plants Significance
to
humans
Climate
The desert is the hottest biome on Earth. It also has its
extremes.
It can be over 100 degrees during the day and below 32
degrees at night.
Less than 25 cm or rainfall every year.
The amount of rainfall varies, but when it rains…it
POURS!!!!
After a storm, the desert may not see any rain for weeks
or months.
ANIMALS
There are hundreds of
The animals include
different animals that
snakes, owls, mice,
live in deserts.
armadillo lizards,
Most of them can only fennec foxes, gila
be found at dawn or monsters, bats, and
dusk, when it is much vultures.
cooler.
Animal-Desert Jack
Rabbit
• The desert jack rabbit eats
plants, such as the cactus.
It is very careful to avoid
the prickly spines! Its ears
pick up any sound of
danger. They also help
keep the rabbit cool
because heat can escape
through the tiny blood
vessels that are found
there.
Endangered
Animals
Black The major causes
Rhino of endangered
animals in the
Grevy’s desert are mainly
Zebra poachers and
unexpected
Plant Life of
Deserts
There are several plants that are able to survive in the desert.
Most plants survive by their long roots to reach underground
water sources.

A Variety of cactuses The vegetation of the Desert Biome is


Prickly Pear characterized by dominance of annual
plants (often annual grasses) This means
Dragon Tree that after a season with rarely abundant
Octillo Plant rains, the desert plains can be covered
with a sea of short annual grass. Whereas
Desert Spoon in more normal years, the plains can
Boojum appear bare with the annual plants
persisting in the form of seed.
Seasons

• The seasons are generally warm


throughout the year and very hot in the
summer. The winters usually bring
little rainfall. Temperatures exhibit
daily extremes because the atmosphere
contains little humidity to block the
Sun’s rays.
Adaptations
• Many of the animals in the desert have
become nocturnal because of the
extreme heat.
• Both plants and animals have learned
to store water, avoid heat by staying
underground, and taking water from
nearby plants.
Human Effects

• Poachers are a main cause of dying animals.


Poachers catch animals of all kinds to make money
for usually just one part, like the elephant tusk.
• With the growing popularity of transportation, many
roads are being built in not only the desert, but all the
other biomes.
• The main problem with these roads are the fact that
they destroy habitats and endanger animals. Road
kill is also a main factor in these dying animals.
• These problems can be easily taken care of if other
means of transportation were encouraged.
Locations around the World
Weird Facts
• The Gobi Desert is cold almost all year
round.
• Deserts spread through desertification.
This happens when grasslands surrounding
deserts become dry.
• Some deserts have gotten nicknames such
as Death Valley because of the lack of
water.
Oasis
• Oases are parts of the desert where plants
grow and water is almost always available.
• An oasis is formed by a pool of water
trapped between layers of rock and the
desert floor.
• The water can allow people to settle and
even grow crops in the desert.
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