BIOMES

desert
climate
Climate Characteristics
Deserts get about 250
millimeters (10 inches) of
rain per year.

In the winter is generally

41oF (5oC) or below and in
the summer the weather
heats up to between 55 and
75oF (12 and 24oC).
Pictures of autotrophs and heterotrophs

Aloe Vera Cactus

Snake desert chihuahua
Interest facts
● Not all deserts have sand, only 20% of the world total deserts have sand.
● The Arctic is the second largest cold desert covering an estimated
13,900,000 square km near the North Pole.But here’s what is interesting
about the Arctic: the sun doesn’t set for nearly sixty days during the
summers, and it keeps hovering over the Land.
● The US is only home to four deserts, including: Great basin, chihuahuan,
Sonoran, and Mojave (the smallest).
Man’s Influence
The main cause of this negative effect on deserts is from human interactions.
Interactions like driving through the desert, leaving tracks, and destroying
vegetation. Also water mining from reservoirs, military exercise(mainly atomic
testing), and trenching involved with pipelines of gas, oil, and water have made
grounds unstable and almost barren.These effects have caused some animal
species to go on the endangered species list ( like the Gazelle, the Oryx, the
Addax, the Arabian Tahr, the Barbary sheep and the Asian Houbara
Bustard).The glacier melting problem is also a problem for the desert’s
ecosystem too. Deserts like the Atacama and the Monte in South America will
suffer the most and have their rivers run dry. This will drastically increase the
death rate of the population, and it might wipe out all but a few organisms from
the deserts.
Bibliography
● https://tourismteacher.com/facts-about-deserts/
● https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/biome/biodesert.php#:~:
text=During%20the%20day%2C%20desert%20temperatures,(about
%2025%20degrees%20fahrenheit).
● https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/archive/d
eserts-old.html#:~:text=Many%20mean%20annual%20temperatur
es%20range,periods%20between%20long%20rainless%20periods.
● https://endykedesert.weebly.com/human-impact.html