By: Jeff Maxson, Matt Gray, Jager Illingsworth, and Sam Ensling
DESERT
GEOGRAPHER (WHERE DESERTS ARE FOUND)
Eastern Africa
 Eastern North America
 Asia
 Australia
 Northern Africa
 Southern Africa
 Eastern south America
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GEOGRAPHER
(SOIL)
The soil in the desert is:
 Coarse
 Light Colored
 High in minerals
 Low vegetation
 The soil can turn to sandstone with heat and
pressure.
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GEOGRAPHER
(ELEVATION)
Most often above sea level
 Some mountains
 many valleys
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GEOGRAPHER (LAND FORMS)
Some mountains
 Mostly flat land
 Some water
 Many bowl shaped land forms called basins
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GEOGRAPHY PICTURES OF LANDFORMS
BOTANIST
What is the growing season here?
 Night temperature drops to 30
 Day temperature rises to 120 during the
summer
 During the winter can drop to 32
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BOTANIST
Hard to grow plants in the deserts not enough
rain, soil is poor, too hot
 Common plants – shrubs (small bush)
 Cacti (leafless plants with thick stems needle
like spines)
 Saguaro cactus (canon cactus in US thick
upward growing branches
 Grows in Sonoran Desert
 Yuccas (evergreen plants with tall, thick steams
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BOTANIST
What is the reprodution of the plants here?
 They fly away and land somwhere else and
grow
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BOTANIST
Describe the types of succession that can occur
in the biome if any.
 Small grasses colonize in spare spots
 More grasses and possibly some other plants as
sand dune stabilizes
 Bushes colonize a fear cacti colonize
 Cacti increase in number and type
 Cacti form full community with variety of types
and age classes
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BOTANIST PICTURES OF PLANTS
DESERT ANIMALS (ZOOLOGIST)
Desert animals ad how they survive in the desert .
WHAT CLASS OF ANIMALS THAT LIVE IN
THE DESERT.
What class of animals that live in the desert.
 Not many mammals.
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FOOD WEB
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The small animals ( mammals, birds,
reptiles, amphibians, and insects) that strive
off each other in the desert.
ADAPTION
Animals have adapted by being able to take
small amounts of water in there system and
stay cool.
 Most animals hunt at night because it’s the
coolest time and its usually when more
animals( prey ) are out.
 Have adapted different ways to go with out
water for a while.
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DESERT ANIMALS
ZOOLOGIST MUTUALISM
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Mutualism usually accrues in the desert
WHAT ANIMALS LIVE IN THE DESERT
Lots of lizards
 Mamels
 Insects
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METEOROLOGIST
Rain, cactus, and underground water
 Average range of 68 - 77 degrees
 Max temperature is 136 degrees
 Climate of little rain and high temperatures
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METEOROLOGIST (WEATHER)
Gets up to 136 degrees f
 Very cold at night
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ELEVATION
Sand dunes up to 2 stories tall
 Mountains and sand dunes are were the
highest elevations are
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RAIN LEVEL
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Up to 20 centimeters of rain a year
WEATHER