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The desert is the place that less than ten inches of rainfall. Deserts can be hot in the daytime and cold in the nighttime. Deserts cover one-fifth of the Earth's land. The Sahara Desert, located in northern Africa, streches 3.5 million square miles, the size of the United States. The people of the desert make houses out of wood, clay and rocks up to three stories high. The most expansive deserts lie in the deep tropical deserts are along the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capicorn. The desert areas in the U.S cover much of this part of the Western Plateaus, Basins, and Ranges land region, west of the Rockies. The land that is shown here is at the Saguaro National Park in Tucson, Arizona. The Mojave( Mo-jay-ve)Desert, in southeastern California, is a far desert wasteland covering about 25,000 square miles (64,700 square kilometers). It is sometimes spelled Mohave. It lies between the Sierra Nevada,near California and the Colorado River,near Colorado.under the layers at the desert gold and soudium nitrate for maneure. || "Simpson Desert." //World Book Student.// World Book, 2012. Web. 10 Jan. 2012. //Desert Habitats//. Prod. 100% Educational Videos. 100% Educational Videos, 1999. //Discovery Education//. []. Web. 12 January 2012., 2012. Rogerson, Robert J. "Desert." //World Book Student.// World Book,2012 Web. 19 Jan. 2012. Rogerson, Robert J. "Desert." //World Book Student.// World Book,2012 Web. 20 Jan. 2012. (c) Jeff Greenberg, Photo Researchers ||
 * **Questions** || **Note taking** || **Where did you find this information? Be specific!** ||
 * Definition of biome || Deserts are very dry places where hardly any rain falls. || Hewitt, Sally. //All Kinds Of Habitats//. Danbury, CT: Grolier Publishing, 1998. Print. ||
 * Where in the world is it located? || Africa, Asia, U.S, Europe, Afghanistan, etc. || Few, Roger. //Animal Encyclopedia for Children.// New York,NY: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1998. Print. ||
 * How do plants adapt to light, soil and precipitation? || Cacti stores water inside thenm and have needles on them to keep their water away from thirsty animals and sagebrush keeps moistures and never scorch in the sun. || Few, Roger. //Animal Encyclopedia for Children.// New York,NY: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1998. Print. ||
 * How do animals adapt to light, soil, and precipitation? || Camels store food and water in there humps and rowari eat at night like insects and birds. || Hewitt, Sally. A//ll Kinds of Habitats//. Danbury, CT: Children Press, 1998. Print. ||
 * How does weather affect the conditions of your ecosystem? || Lack of water and no shade from the sun(which makes it unbearably hot). || Few,Roger. //Animal Encylopedia for Children.// New York: Mcmillan Publishing Company,1991. Print. ||
 * How do humans affect the conditions of your ecosystem? || They will leave ditches where smells animals cannot get out. We kill animals.. || //Desert Habitats//. Prod. 100% Educational Videos. 100% Educational Videos, 1999. //Discovery Education//. Web. 12 January 2012. . ||
 * Other interesting informatio || The Simpson Desert lies on the border of Queensland, South Australia, and the Northern Territory. It is approximately two hundred miles long and approximately one hundred miles wide. The middle of the desert is the area for sand drift. The outside parts of the desert include bare and rocky hills, sand ridges that range up to fifty feet high,and rounded stones called //gibber.//


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