An oasis
Most deserts receive some rainfall each year. However, the only area in a desert with a spring would be an oasis.
Most deserts receive some rainfall each year. However, the only area in a desert with a spring would be an oasis.
A fertile place in the desert where there is water and some vegetation is sometimes referred to as an oasis. This area often contains an abundance of wildlife.
Water is available in an oasis or t a river or stream that passes through a desert. In some cases it can be found not far below the surface.
I am sure the name was given to the desert by some ancient tribe in the area and the meaning is now lost. The Atacameno tribe took its name from the area but we do not know if they were the ones to name the desert or if they simply were given the name because they lived in the desert that already had that name.
SOME desert plant have spikes, which reduce the surface area of the leaves so that the loss of water is reduced.
Some cactuses in the desert have water in them
Although some deserts are dry, barren, desolate places, the definition of desert only requires it to have little precipitation.A better term for such a particularly barren area is a wasteland.
an oasis but some are fed by small rivers that form during the few rainstorms of the desertAn Oasis
In Africa it is called the Sahel. Some define a steppe as a region bordering a desert that receives too much rain to be called a desert but not enough to be called a grassland.
so that they have a smaller surface area to lose water from
The barrel cactus can be a plant that animals can get water from in the desert.