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Deserts
A dry, often sandy region of little rainfall, extreme temperatures, and sparse vegetation
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What does a desert marigold eat?
All plants produce their own food bt photosynthesis. They absorb water and nutients from the soil.
What is the dryest desert that starts with a a?
Believe it or not, it is Antartica and/or the Atacama Desert. Scientists disagree.
Do desert animals live in groups?
Some live as individuals, others prefer the safety of numbers and live in groups. Pronghorn, meerkats and prairie dogs are some animals that prefer to be in groups.
What is the yearly rainfall in a desert in general?
Each desert has its own precipitation statistics. However, a desert is defined as a region that receives less than 10 inches (250 mm) of precipitation per year.
What are words to describe the tropical rainforest?
Dark, Damp, Humid, Lively, Populated, Green, Vegetated, Amazing, Beautiful, opaque
What should tourists do when they visit deserts?
Make sure to ware long sleeves and pants, covered shoes, and protect your face and eyes from the sun. Drink more water than you think you need. Be aware that many deserts become very cold at night, so bring layers.
And make sure to be mindful and respectful of the local customs.
How do animals survive high temperatures?
Most animals can fins shelter from the sun under trees, shrubs etc. Others may dig a burrow to sleep in during the hottest part of the day.
Do any penguins live in deserts?
Most hot deserts of the world are located in the interior of continents and penguins require a nearby ocean to survive. They eat a fish diet so require the proximity of the sea. They are found in the Antarctic Desert as well as the Atacama and the Namib Deserts which are cool coastal deserts.
How does characteristics of an organism help it survive in a desert?
Depending on the example you are given, it would be something along the lines of a camel has fat stores as food is sparse to it must have an energy store
Do fairies live in the desert?
No, fairies as well as unicorns are mythical characters and do not live in deserts or elsewhere except in our imagination.
What has the hottest and driest place is the U.S.?
Death Valley in the Mojave Desert of California has the hottest and driest climate in the United States.
What is the average monthly temperature of the desert?
Deserts are divided into "hot" and "cold" deserts.
There are different temperature ranges for different types of deserts.
The average temperature of the hot desert ranges from 20 to 25° C, but its extreme maximum temperature ranges from 43.5 to 49° C. As an example the Sahara desert's night temperatures during the winter months can drop to -5 ºC and some ares can even experience frost.
The average temperatures of the cold desert in winter ranges from -2 to 4° C, whilst in the summer it ranges from 21 to 26° C. Taking Antarctica (the most extreme cold desert) as an example, its lowestt temperature was −89.2 °C and its highest temperature was14.6°C
Deserts either have no precipitation (rain), or the evaporation rate exceeds the amount of rainfall by a significant factor.
For information about a specific desert visit the related question links below. Each desert has its own climate.
Desert is defined by the amount of precipitation an area receives can They can either be very hot (example: the Sahara) or very cold (the Antarctic),
In the case of hot deserts the temperature range from highs of 43.5 to 49° C to minimum temperatures down to -18° C. The hottest ever recorded was 57.8° C
Cold deserts like the Antarctic have temperature ranges from an average of -70 Co during the winter months and -35 Co in the warmer months. The lowest temperature was -89.6 Co was recorded on 21st July, 1983, at Vostok Station. Deserts include both hot dry deserts like the Sahara and Arabian deserts and cold dry deserts like the Antarctic. The Sahara can range as high as +50oC during the day and below freezing at night. and the Antarctic the minimum temperature ranges from -80 °C to -90 °C. During summer, the high temperature lies between 5°C and 15°C
Why do animals in hot climates need thin fur?
because if they had thick fur, they would die of heat stroke.
What is the name of the enormous desert that covers much of Turkmenistan?
The Karkum Desert covers about 70% of Turkmenistan.
What desert covers more than 80 percent of Turkmenistan?
The Karakum Desert covers much of that country.
What are the dominate plants of the desert biomes and the dominate grassland biomes?
The dominant plants of the desert biomes would depend on what desert you are referring to. In the Mojave, for instance, the more dominant plants would be cacti, mesquite trees and Joshua trees. In other deserts, only sand exists.
The dominant plants of the grassland biomes is grass.
What is the geographical process of a desert?
Weather is a major contributor to bushfires. The hotter and drier, the more likely it is for a bushfire to start and spread uncontrollably. High winds will reduce humidity, and cause an ongoing bushfire to spread more rapidly. Often these high winds are brought from off the desert areas in Australia. Therefore, the geographic process tends to be that bushfires are more common inland, rather than near the coast, where weather is drier.
Bushfires move faster in hilly country. For every 10 degrees of slope gradient, the speed of the bushfire will double as it travels uphill.
This is by no means the case every time, however, as bushfires are also common on the largest island in Moreton Bay (North Stradbroke Island), near Brisbane, Queensland. Not only is the weather humid, but the terrain is comparatively flat
Why is the saguaro cactus the center of life in the desert?
It provides animals in the desert what they need to survive . It gives them food ,some a home and let's the other cactus be there after it dies.
What are some places in South America that are desert regions and near the ocean?
The Atacama Desert of Chile, Peru, Argentina and Bolivia is along the Pacific Ocean as well as the Sechura Desert of Peru.
Does the Namib Desert have cacti?
No, cacti live naturally only in North and South America. They are not natives of Africa.
What is the driest desert on earth - the Sahara the Kalahari or the Atacama?
The driest desert is generally seen as being either the Atacama or Antarctic
