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- 1. BY JENNA www.freeimages.co.uk
- 2. WEATHER AND CLIMATE The weather and climate in the deserts are hot. 49 degrees in the day time on a winter day On a winter night it can be 48 degrees On a summer day it’s a top of 120 degrees It rarely rains. On rainy days it can drop to 25 degrees www.freedigitalphotos.net
- 3. The desert can have rain, but hardly rains at all. It depends what desert but it also depends if it drops lower than 25 degrees. www.freedigitalphotos.net
- 4. www.freedigitalphotos.net Electronic devices are affected by the hot weather. The hot desert weather will most likely damage electronic devices. www.freeimages.co.uk
- 6. Fact 6. The deserts today are popular because of the tourist that go to the deserts Fact 7. The hottest desert which is the Sahara reaches up to 122 degrees Fact 8. only 3% of the Australian population live in the desert. Fact 9. it didn’t rainfor over 39 years in the Atacama desert in Chile. Fact 10. In some deserts the temperatures fall below cold www.freeimages.co.uk
- 7. Fact 11. sand dunes can be as tall as 300m Fact 12. there is over 1,200 species of plants found in the Sahara desert Fact 13. More than one third of the earth’s land surface is covered by deserts. Fact 14. Sand dunes can move Fact 15. Gila monsters are just venomous lizards www.freeimages.co.uk
- 8. Sahara – north Africa Gobi – Mongolia – china Kalahari - southern Africa Great Victoria –Australia Great Sandy – Australia The locations of deserts can be in a lot of places in the world. So far world wide there are only 5 deserts that people know of. www.freeimages.co.uk
- 9. The Sahara Desert is in Northern Africa . It is 3,500,000 square miles away and 9,065,000 square miles. So that means the Sahara is the largest Desert on earth. It is the hottest biome. It is extremely hot on dry days. www.freedigitalphotos.net
- 10. Great Sandy and Great Victoria are in Australia Great Sandy is the second largest desert n the world and great sandy is in northern territory. Great Victoria only has a little bit of ran but more then expected for a desert.
- 11. www.freedigitalphotos.net www.freedigitalphotos.net Pipe cactus Mojave aster Barrel cactus Joshua tree Popcorn flower chain fruit cholla Mormon tea native buttercup Fairy duster www.freeimages.co.uk
- 12. Dertiltikis Brittle bush Palo Verde Jumping cholla Ocotillo www.freedigitalphotos.net Desert ironwood www.freedigitalphotos.net
- 13. Some animals in the desert are: Camel Armadillo Bobcat Banded glia monster Cactus wren Coyote Javelina Meerkat www.freedigitalphotos.net
- 14. The red kangaroo is the world's largest marsupial. The female red kangaroo only has one baby at a time. The baby climbs into the pouch straight away and does not come out until about 2 months. Red kangaroos hop along on their powerful back legs and they hop at a good speed. www.freedigitalphotos.net
- 15. The flamingo, a large wading bird that can live in big shallow lakes, sandy islands lagoons, mangrove or swamps. They can be found in Africa, Asia, North America, Central America, South America, and Europe. Flamingos can live nearly everywhere. Adult flamingos can be 3.3 to 4.6 feet tall. They can weigh up to 3.3 to 9 pounds. There are 6 species of Flamingos. www.freedigitalphotos.net
- 17. A plant gets energy Sun from the sun, the plant gets eaten by a insect an insect get eaten by a lizard a lizard gets eaten by a snake www.freedigitalphotos.net plant animals Snake Lizard
- 18. www.freedigitalphotos.net sun The grass attracts it’s energy from the sun, the grass gets eaten www.freedigitalphotos.net from mice and the mice gets eaten by dingos grass Dingos Mouse www.freedigitalphotos.net www.freedigitalphotos.net www.freedigitalphotos.net
- 19. SPECIAL THANKS TO: www.ask.com Yahoo answers www.desert.com www.animals.com Animals in the desert Plants in the desert Locations of the desert worldwide What happens in the desert if it rains www.freedigital photos.net www.freeimages.co.uk flaming text and flaming text backgrounds