Desert - Davonta

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By: Davonta
Johnson
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can be classified according to several
characteristics.
There are four major types of deserts:
Hot and dry
Semiarid
Coastal
Cold
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The scientific name for an animal that lives in
a desert is Xerocole.
Desert animals are very adept at obtaining
water. Many eat plants filled with water. They
often wait until nighttime to dine.
Some of the animals that lives here are
snakes, Foxes, ect.
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impacts on plants of changing precipitation
and temperatures due to increasing
greenhouse gas emissions has only used
averages, ignoring the high variation in
precipitation expected with climate change.
Name of some plants: Mexican Elder.
Elephant Tree, Elephant Tree. And ect.
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Deserts are found across our planet along
two fringes parallel to the equator at 25–
35° latitude in both the northern and
southern hemispheres.
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Grazing pressure on the desert, and
especially on the desert margin, is the most
extensive agent of land degradation.
Military activities and off-road vehicles do
cause extensive, lasting damage to the fragile
desert cover.
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a desert is defined as having less than an
average 25 cm of precipitation per year
deserts are dry places, where the
availability of water is the major factor that
determines the types of organisms that can
live there.
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Georgia's biome is the Deciduous Forest
Biome. In this biome, there are various trees
from oaks to sweet gum trees. The average
temperature of deciduous forest biomes
averages about 50 degrees Fahrenheit and
gets between 30 to 60 inches of rain a year.
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http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/desert.ht
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http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/desert.ht
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