They have a thick waxy coating protecting the pine needles
How are evergreens able to survive the cold winter of the subarctic
How are evergreens able to survive the cold winter of the subarctic
Evergreens are specially adapted . A waxy coating of an evergreen's needles keep in moisture during the bitter cold.
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that's what im trying to find out....i think it has somethin to do witth their wacy needles i think
The answer depends on which desert. If it is a hot, subtropical desert, the summers are hot and the winters are mild., If it is a cold winter desert, the summers are hot and the winters can be bitterly cold.
The Taklamakan Desert is classified as a cold desert. It can get quite hot in the summer but winters can turn bitterly cold.
The Gobi Desert is a cold winter desert. While summers can be quite hot, winters can be bitterly cold.
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polar climate
Temperate deserts, also known as cold winter deserts, may be quite hot in summer but winters can be bitterly cold.
Evergreens thrive there because deciduous trees do not ( lack of competition ), because they can survive long cold winters, because they grow very slowly, and because they require little sunlight. The Tiga is a band of evergreens that circles the globe at about that same latitude, the trees in the tiga provide more oxygen to our atmosphere than all of the rainforests combined.