Brown usually means desert.
Brown usually means desert.
Brown on a map usually represents areas of higher elevation, such as mountains or hills, rather than grassland or desert. Grassland is typically depicted in shades of light green, while desert areas are usually shown in shades of beige or light brown.
It would be brown and arid.
Desert animals are usually light brown to help them blend in with the terrain for protection from predators. Usally brown depends
Here I'm just guessing, but I live about 1/2 mile from Rand-McNally's headquarters, and I like to think that I've absorbed something from their smokestacks through the years. Seems to me that a smart mapmaker, who wants his product to resemble reality in some sense, would want to show grasslands in green, like grass, and a desert in brown ... you know, like sand ?
long reedy brown long grass
About 30 degrees north or south of the equator, usually represented by a light sandy brown color on the map.
Nope - they are forest and grassland dwellers.
Maps of area's that have lots of trees and ground. Cities and housing areas are usually grey colored, and water blue. Green stands for forests or bushes, and brown for grassland, farming land, or fallow land.
About 30 degrees north or south of the equator, usually represented by a light sandy brown color on the map.
G. W. Brown has written: 'Desert biology' -- subject(s): Biology, Desert Climate, Desert biology
An emu's shaggy feathers are various shades of brown and grey. While this would not seem natural camouflage, the emu blends in surprisingly well with its open bushland and grassland habitat. Emu chicks are striped yellow and brown. The stripes of a young emu chick make it much harder for a predator to detect in grassland and bushland.