Deserts

Deserts — page 1 — INTRODUCTION In some parts of the world it hardly ever rains These places are deserts A place is a desert if it gets less than 10 inches 25 centimeters of rain a year There are some deserts where no rain falls for years SANDY STONY OR ROCKY The Namib Desert in Southwest Africa is a sandy desert Not all deserts are sandy There are also stony deserts and rocky

Deserts — page 2 — Ground squirrels live around the edges of the Sahara Desert in North Africa They feed during the cooler parts of the day At night they sleep in burrows he places where plants or animals live and grow are called biomes Some animals and plants live in grasslands A tropical rain forests or oceans And some have adapted to survive in deserts N RE Plants and animals that live at in deserts have to be tough Life is hard because there is so little water It can be sizzling it as hot during the day and freezing cold at night t Read on to find out what deserts M are like and how plants animals I and people survive in

Deserts — page 3 — DESERTS OF THE All deserts are very dry but every one is different This map shows some of the things that can be found in the world's deserts NORTH AMERICA T The Toshua tree is one of the few trees that can live in the desert It grows in the Mojave Desert in the United States SOUTH MERICA Llamas live in the Atacama Desert in Chile People make clothes from llamas warm wool ANTARCTICA O teams are most Antarctica is the world's largest and coldest desert

Deserts — page 4 — WORLD Desert The Gobi Desert in China and Mongolia is freezing cold in the winter ASIA EUROPE AFRICA You can see the ruins of an ancient city named Petra in the Arabian Desert AUSTRALIA 3 stars Aboriginal people have lived in the Australian deserts for thousands of

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