Desert

Animals

- texas horned lizard

- meerkat

Plan life

- barrel cactus

- elephant tree

Animal adaptations

- the meerkat is ammune to scorpion venom so it can feed on them

- the arizona bark scorpion has become good at blending into its surroundings to aviod being eaten

Plant adaptations

- cacti can absorb water in their tissues to survive the dry dessert

- a cactus can also absorb and hold energy from the sun

How humans have affected this biome

as strange as it sounds humans have marked up the desert with tracks. these tracks scar the desert for long periods of time. because of this the plant life is affected.

5 facts about the desert

- temperatures rise in the day and drop very low at night

- the sahara desert is the largest desert in the desert biome

- the vegitation is very short so most of the wild life in the desert is also short

- dust storms are common in the desert

-it gets so hot in some deserts that the rain evaporates before it even hits the ground

The desert is not diverse

the desert is a temperate climate