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Desert Ecosystems

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Desert an ecosystem found

where there is very little rainfall.Deserts are dry and hot. There are very few clouds.Two kinds of deserts:

Hot deserts

Cold deserts

Hot deserts

Temperatures are very warm all year round

The summers are very hot

Cold deserts

Short, warm summers

on!, cold winters

"ound in places near the north and south poles

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Desert #lants$any plants are found in the desert. They

usually !row close to the !round.These plants have special parts that helpthem save water.

The special parts are: thick stem, shallowand wide roots, and thick skin covered

with spines instead of leaves.

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Desert %nimalsThere are many animals in the desert.

They can survive &y eatin! other animals or &yeatin! plants that store water.

To protect them from the hot sun, they stay in the

shade or in their shelter.%nimals may &uild their shelters inside plants.

Some animals sleep durin! the day and areactive at ni!ht.

Some animals have hard shells to protect themfrom losin! much water.

$ore animals live in hot deserts than in cold

deserts.

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'oadrunner

%nteater

Scorpion(ila monster )li*ard+

Camel

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Deserts in the nited States

(reat -asin Desert

$oave Desert

Chihuahua Desert

Sonoran Desert

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(reat -asin Desert

California

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$oave Desert

California

/evada

%ri*ona

tah

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Chihuahuan Desert

%ri*ona

/ew $e1ico

Te1as

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Sonoran Desert

California

%ri*ona

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'eview

2hat is a desert3

How do plants survive in the desert3

How do animals survive in the desert3

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earn more a&out deserts

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Desert information

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