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    Desert Biome

    You already have a good idea of what the


    desert is like. All deserts are very dry places;
    deserts get only a small amount of rain during the
    year. Some desert areas are so dry that they
    receive merely a half-inch of rain per year. The
    dryness means that only plants that have adapted
    to desert conditions, like the many species of cactus, can thrive there. Cactus
    plants are different from other plants because they store water inside themselves
    and have also adapted to being in the sun all the time. There usually aren’t any
    trees in a desert biome but amazingly some trees have adapted to living in the
    desert. Only a few species of small mammals can be found in the desert. Except
    for camels and some African elephants that live in the desert areas of Namibia,
    deserts usually aren’t suitable for species of large mammals.
    Deserts occupy about one-fifth of the earth’s surface. There are four kinds
    of deserts: hot, dry deserts; semiarid deserts; coastal deserts; and cold deserts.
    The hot, dry desert is the one we are most familiar with because North
    America has three such deserts: Chihuahuan, Sonoran, and Mojave. The
    Chihuahuan Desert covers portions of northern Mexico and parts of Texas, New
    Mexico and Arizona. Temperatures there are hot in the summer and cool in the
    winter. There are only a few shrub species in the Chihuahuan Desert. The
    Sonoran Desert is located in Arizona, California and Northern Mexico. This is the
    hottest American desert and is famous for saguaro cactus. The Mojave Desert is
    also in Arizona and California and is home to about 200 unique plants including
    the Joshua tree.
    The United States is also home to semi-arid desert like the Great Basin
    area of Nevada. Some parts of the Great Basin are classified as cold desert
    because they are in the mountains. Semi-arid deserts get more rainfall that hot,
    dry deserts and temperatures are cooler in the summer. Cool nights in the semi-
    arid desert give animals a bit more moisture in the form of morning dew.
    A coastal desert occurs near the coastline of the ocean. A famous coastal
    desert is the Atacama Desert in Chile. A coastal desert has warm summers and
    cool winters. Antarctica has areas of cold desert biome. There only lichens grow
    on the rocky terrain.

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