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May 19, 2015
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WEATHER AND CLIMATE
The weather and climate in the deserts are hot.49 degrees in the day time on a winter dayOn a winter night it can be 48 degreesOn a summer day it’s a top of 120 degreesIt rarely rains.On rainy days it can drop to 25 degrees
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IF IT RAINSThe desert can have rain, but hardly rains at all. It depends what desert but it also depends if it drops lower than 25 degrees.
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ClimateElectronic devices are affected by the hot weather. The hot desert weather will most likely damage electronic devices.
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INTERESTING FACTSFact 1. Deserts cover about one fifth (20%) of land area.Fact 2. The desert is the hottest biome on earth.Fact 3. The desert has dry water wholes.Fact 4. The hottest desert in the world is the SaharaFact 5. The desert contains sheep and Zebras
INTRESTING FACTS Fact 6. The deserts today are popular
because of the tourist that go to the deserts
Fact 7. The hottest desert which is the Sahara reaches up to 122 degrees
Fact 8. only 3% of the Australian population live in the desert.
Fact 9. it didn’t rainfor over 39 years in the Atacama desert in Chile.
Fact 10. In some deserts the temperatures fall below cold
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INTERESTING FACTS
Fact 11. sand dunes can be as tall as 300m
Fact 12. there is over 1,200 species of plants found in the Sahara desert
Fact 13. More than one third of the earth’s land surface is covered by deserts.
Fact 14. Sand dunes can move Fact 15. Gila monsters are just venomous
lizards
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LOCATIONSSahara – north AfricaGobi – Mongolia – chinaKalahari - southern Africa Great Victoria –AustraliaGreat Sandy – Australia
The locations of deserts can be in a lot of places in the world. So far world wide there are only 5 deserts that people know of.
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The Sahara Desert
The Sahara Desert is in Northern Africa .It is 3,500,000 square miles away and 9,065,000 square miles. So that means the Sahara is the largest Desert on earth. It is the hottest biome.It is extremely hot on dry days.
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Great Sandy and Great Victoria
Great Sandy and Great Victoria are in AustraliaGreat Sandy is the second largest desert n the world and great sandy is in northern territory.
Great Victoria only has a little bit of ran but more then expected for a desert.
Plants
Pipe cactus Mojave aster Barrel cactus Joshua tree Popcorn flower chain fruit cholla Mormon tea native buttercup Fairy duster
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PLANTS
Dertiltikis Brittle bush Palo Verde Jumping cholla Ocotillo Desert ironwood
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ANIMALS Some animals in the desert are: Camel Armadillo Bobcat Banded glia monster Cactus wren Coyote Javelina Meerkat
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Animal The red kangaroo is the world's largest
marsupial. The female red kangaroo only has one baby at a time. The baby climbs into the pouch straight away and does not come out until about 2 months.
Red kangaroos hop along on their powerful back legs and they hop at a good speed.
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FLAMINGOThe flamingo, a large wading bird that can live in big shallow lakes, sandy islands lagoons, mangrove or swamps.They can be found in Africa, Asia, North America, Central America, South America, and Europe. Flamingos can live nearly everywhere. Adult flamingos can be 3.3 to 4.6 feet tall. They can weigh up to 3.3 to 9 pounds.
There are 6 species of Flamingos.
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THE FOOD CHAIN
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food chainSun
plant
animals
A plant gets energy from the sun, the plant gets eaten by a insect an insect get eaten by a lizard a lizard gets eaten by a snake
LizardSnake
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FOOD CHAIN
sun
grass
The grass attracts it’s energy from the sun, the grass gets eaten from mice and the mice gets eaten by dingos
Mouse
Dingos
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