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The normal Temperature in Summer is 38° CelsiusAnd the normal Temperature in Winter is -2° Celsius

Did you know Desert temperatures can get up to 100 degrees during the day and 32 at night.

Did you know the Sahara desert is the worlds largest and hottest Desert.

Did you know the only animals that can survive can burrow holes under ground.

Deserts are hot areas that receive very little rainfall. Most of the water that hits the ground evaporates within minutes.

Did you know? There are Hot and cold Desert all around the world.

Did you know? The largest of all the hot deserts around the world, and covering an area of 9,400,000 square kilometres, is the Sahara desert.

• Great sandy Desert• Thar Desert• Taklamakan Desert

• Gibson Desert• Simpson Desert

• Atacama Desert

• Namib Desert• Dasht-e Kavir Desert

List of Deserts

• Mojave DesertFreeImages.co.uk/

The Great Sandy Desert is hot and mostly dry. Very little rain falls there.

Some animal that live the Great Sandy Desert are lizards, goannas and red kangaroo but most of them are endangered because of animals such as foxes, feral and cats that also live in the desert.

Thar Desert is the world's seventh largest Deserts.

The Thar Desert is located in parts of India and Pakistan and is known as the Great Indian Desert. In the winter, temperatures fall below freezing, and in the summer, temperatures can reach to more than 125 degrees °Fahrenheit.

The Taklimakan Desert is in  China  it is the largest, driest, and warmest desert in China.

Did you Know the Taklimakan Desert covers an area of 270,000 km and 21,000 km long and 400 km wide.

The Gibson Desert is a desert made up of sand hills and dry grass. The desert is about 155,000 square kilometres (60,000 square miles) in size.

The Gibson Desert is located in the central east rangelands of Western Australia.

Occupying almost 200,000 square kilometres of central Australia, mostly in the Northern Territory's south-east but also in parts of South Australia and Queensland. Rainfall is less than 400 millimetres per year.

The Simpson Desert is a hot and dry desert.

Some of the plants that live in the Desert are: Green Kangaroo Paw

Popcorn Flower Barrel CactusTriangle-leaf BursageSoaptree YuccaSaguaro CactusPancake Prickly PearPalo VerdeOcotilloMojave AsterJumping ChollaJoshua TreeDesert IronwoodCrimson Hedgehog CactusCreosote BushChain Fruit ChollaBrittle Bush

The stem and the bases of the flower is usually deep red and covered with hairs. The colour then changes to a nice green. For most of the length of the flower which splits open to show a smooth pale green inside.

Popcorn flowers are small and white. They bloom from February through June. They can also by small as 2 inches and can go up to 10 inches tall. The flowers open starting from the bottom of the plant moving to the top. This causes the stem to uncoil.

FreeImages.co.uk/The barrel cactus can be found in Arizona, California, Texas and Central Mexico. It grows in the desert. It is one of the largest cactus of the North American Deserts.

The Triangle-leaf Bursage is a member of the Sunflower Family. It is also one of the most important as it acts a "nurse" plant from young cactus that grow in its shade.

It grows to 2' in height but most specimens in this area are less than 1.

The Soaptree Yucca is a abundant evergreen, palm-like shrub or small tree growing 10 to 18 feet high. The gray trunk with a diameter of 6 to 12 inches is slightly furrowed below and covered with dead leaves at the top. It is usually unbranched and has very long, narrow leaves.

Some of the animal in the Desert are :

Horned LizardSpotted HyenaOstrichMeerkatKangaroo RatRoadrunnerGekoDesert ToadTexas Horned

Horned lizard are lizards that look like short little animals with there thin short tails and short neck and legs, there have spines on the head, sides, and back. Horned lizards are colored for protection from other animals.

The spotted hyena is the largest and most common hyena. Other members of the Hyaenidae family are the striped hyena, brown hyena and aardwolf.

The spotted hyena look like a fierce animal with its big bony front legs and it coat with its off-white backround colour with dark brown spots.

The ostrich is the world's largest bird. Ostrich cannot fly. They live in the desert. Because they live in the desert they get most of their water from the plants they eat.

Meerkat are often seen in groups, and several families may live together in a large community.

They often stand on their rear legs and gaze alertly over the southern African plains where they live. Meerkats work together in numbers. A few will typically serve as lookouts.

Kangaroo rat are small mouselike animal living in the desert. There are about 20 kangaroo rat species.

Kangaroo rats have large, heads with big eyes, and fur-lined cheek pouches for food storage, and extremely long, tufted tails.

Dingo 

Bighorn Sheep Rabbits

CactusSweetbush

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