HOT DESERTS Monday, February 17,2020 9:02 PM Name Size Physical Some Plants Special Location Features &Animals — Facts Arabian 900,000 mi? Covered acacia, Nomadic Arabian 2,300,000 km almost oleander, Bedouin Peninsula 7 entirely by saltbush tribes have sand; has desert locust, travelled some of the dromedary through the most camel, Arabian extensive gazelle, Desert for stretches of lizard, jackal, thousands of sand dunes in oryx years. the world. Australian (890,00 mi? Great Sandy, acacia, Aborigines Great Sandy, 2,300,000 km Victoria, and casuarina have lived in Victoria, 7 Simpson are _ tree, the Australian Simpson, (1/3 of sandy; eucalyptus, deserts for Gibson, and _ Australia) Gibson and saltbush, over 30,000 Sturt) Sturt are spinifex grass years. Australia stony. blue-tongued lizard, dingo, fat-tailed mouse, kangaroo, marsupial mole, rabbit- eared bandicoot, sand goanna, spinifex hopping mouse, throny devil Chihuahuan 175,000 mi? High plateau cacti, Largest North North Central 455,000 km? covered by chihuahuan American Mexico and stony areas flax, creosote desert. Big Southwestern and sandy bush, Bend National United States soil. Many lechuguilla, Park located (Arizona, New mountains mesquite, here; more Mexico, and mesas. mexican gold species of Texas) poppy birds seen in coyote, Big Bend than diamondback in any other rattlesnake, —_ National Park javelina, in the U.S. kangaroo rat, roadrunner Kalahari 200,000 mi? Covered by acacia, aloe Bushman Southwestern 520,000 km? sand dunes gazelle, have lived in Africa and gravel gerbil, ground the Kalahari plains. squirrel, for 20,000 hyena, jackel, years. sandgrouse, springbok Mojave 25,000 mi? Covered by creosote Death Valley Southwestern 65,000 km? sandy soil, bush, desert located in this United States gravelly sand verbena, desert. (Arizona, pavement, joshua tree, California, and salt flats. mesquite Nevada) bighorn sheep, chuckwalla, coyote, jackrabbit, sidewinder, zebra-tailed lizard Monte 125,000 mi? Covered by cardon Very similar Argentina 325,000 km? sand and soil cactus, to the creosote Sonoran bush, Desert paloverde armadillo, cavy, jaguarundi, puma, tinamou, tuco-tuco Sahara 3,500,000 mi? Covered by acacia, Largest Northern 9,100,000 km mountains, grasses, desert in the Africa 7 rocky areas, | tamarisks world. Fewer gravel plains, addax than 2 million salt flats, antelope, inhabitants huge areas of dorcas (mostly dunes. Areas gazelle, nomads such in the central fennec fox, as the sometimes horned viper, Tuareg). get no rain jackal, Crossed by for years ata jerboa, Arab caravans time. sandgrouse, since the 10th spiny-yailed — century. lizard Sonoran 120,000 mi? Covered by agave, Most complex Southwestern 312,000 km? sand, soil, coulter's animal-plant United States and gravelly globemallow, community of (Arizona, Pavement. creosote any desert. California) Gets more bush, desert One of the and parts of rain than any mariposa lily, most Mexico (Baja other North mesquite, beautiful Peninsula, American ocotillo, deserts in the Sonora) desert. paloverde, world. saguaro coati, elf owl, gila monster, kangaroo rat, pack rat, roadrunner, sidewinder, tarantula Thar 77,000 mi2 Majority of acacia, Small villages India and 200,000 km? desert euphorbias, of ten to Pakistan covered by grasses, twenty sand dunes; — shrubs houses rest covered _ black buck, scattered by gravel dromedary throughout plains camel, great the Thar Indian bustard, Indian spiny- tailed lizard, jackel, sandgrouse