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= The Desert Biome =



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**Plants** The Joshua tree is a tree that also lives in the desert that has two sets of root systems and one develops buds and store surplus water.
 * Most famous of all desert plants would have to be the cactus it survives by holding every drop of water it can get and storing it inside its stems.
 * The Brittle bush is a native plant that is used by native Americans to create gum and glue.
 * Wilwichia is a plant that lives in the desert and is a producer.
 * Ocotillo is a plant that has spikes on the roots to protect it, it lives up to two days.
 * Soap tree Yucca Inside of the roots and trunk is a soapy substance.
 * Palo Verde is thin green almost waxy layer that contains chlorophyll for photosynthesis.
 * Jumping Challa has a thick layer at spines shades the plant from the heat.
 * Mojave Aster the steams are gray- green and have spikes on them to protect them.
 * Desert Ironwoods it can live as long as 1,000 years provides food and shade to animals and other plants.

Desert life Food Web Mammals Birds = Insects = > Geography
 * Anteaters- Anteaters survive by finding ant hills and eating ants inside also they burrow in the ground like other animals.
 * Kangaroos- Are located in the Australian desert and knock down cacti and drink the juices and protect their young by shielding them from the sun within their pouches.
 * Mice & Rats- these animals stay alive by eating insects and seeds also like the anteater they burrow in the ground for shelter.
 * Foxes- eats mostly any rabbit or rodent they can find, they also find watering holes and burrow near those areas
 * Jackles- they also like the fox eat any type of meat source they can find and they burrow underground to be able to keep cool.
 * Lions- mostly go after meat sources like the jackle and fox and they too burrow underground.
 * Sand grouse- uses its special feathers to soak up water.
 * Vultures- live by migrating when their is a drought.
 * locust survive in the desert by easting all plant sources and decomposing animals.
 * Scorpions live by using their poison to ward off predators and they sting their prey.
 * These insects also burrow in trees or the desert ground.
 * There are hot/cold deserts. To be called a desert the land must receive less than 10inches of water a year.
 * Cold Deserts the land is covered by snow but it is deathly dry and it also receives less than 10inches of water and the snow never melts.
 * Hot Deserts can reach up to 140 degrees Fahrenheit and the land is mostly sand or rocks and it is very rarely when this area receives rain.
 * Climate- dry, arid places not always hot average temp.- High 43.5- 49c, low -2- -4c.



Dangers
 * One of the dangers with the elephants in the desert is when humans go out for a hunt they kill the elephants for their tusk.
 * Another danger would be lack of shelter and mining in all the caves.

How To Help
 * One of the first things you could do to help is to stop pollution in this desert and all deserts.
 * Hunters need to lay of all the tusk its a large money profit but the species is going extinct.

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Created by Elijah Dennison and Emily Hopkins