WHAT IS A DESERT?
Desert is a dry region with little or no vegetation and is found throughout the world. These places have plants and animals too, that have adapted to surviving on little water. Deserts are not necessarily hot, but they can be cold as well. There are different types of deserts.
What makes a desert a desert?
Deserts are deserts because they lack water. It rains so rarely in a desert that some deserts even go two years without a drop of rain. The soil is so dry and hot that sometimes when rain comes, the rain evaporates before it reaches the ground. Imagine that next time you get thirsty!
How is the weather in a desert?
Contrary to popular belief, not all deserts are hot and dry. Ironically, there are types of deserts that are extremely cold such as deserts in Antarctica. These cold deserts have lengthy winters that frequently rain. Regardless of this frequent rain, it is still considered a desert because the moisture turns into ice, thus keeping the dryness.
In coastal deserts, the weather is fairly cool. The winters are understandably cold and the summers are warm.
TYPES OF DESERT HABITAT
When we think of deserts, the first thing that comes into our minds is a dry place with lots and lots gold sand. Apparently, this is not the case; there are many kinds of desert and not all of them are hot and barren lands. Take a look at some of the different types of deserts below:
Hot and dry deserts
PICTURE: Antarctica is the largest desert in the world, while the Sahara in Africa is the largest of the hot deserts.
This type of desert is the hottest one. This is the kind of desert with dry terrain whose ground can be shallow, rocky, gravely or sandy. Dust and sand particles are often blown around.
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...ts are large mammals found in the coastal desert of Namibia and Angola. Elephants know where to find water, and once they run out of water in one end, they will travel even at long distances in order to get more water. Once they find that the waterhole they traveled to is dry, they will dig a short distance with their trunks and find some.
Cheetah
Cheetah is the fastest land animal there is. It can run up to 112 to 120 km in short bursts. This cat is one of the few cats with semi-retractable claws.
Barn Owl
There are also birds that live in coastal deserts. One of these are the barn owl. It is a nocturnal creature and feeds on small mammals in the Atacama Desert and the coastal desert of Western Sahara and Namibia.
Vultures
Vultures live off dead animals. This is what we call scavengers. These birds are found on every continent except for Australia and Antartica.
A Bald Eagle Ecology article states that Helminth parasites live on bald eagles to receive nourishment while disrupting nutrient absorption. The following photo shows an enlarged image of a Helminth parasite.
The winter was pretty harsh it was pretty cold and it was snowy. The Climate in the area that the Aztecs lived in was hot and dry. They lived in the desert. It was very hoot and very dry but they knew how to live with it. Geography and Location
A food desert is a location in which a wide variety of nutrition food is not generally available (Wrigley et al. 261). Food deserts exist in places such as inner cities and isolated rural areas (Morton and Blanchard 1). The purpose of the paper supported by this annotated bibliography is to argue that food deserts do not exist because of discrimination against the poor, but because of forces related to supply and demand. This hypothesis ought to be kept in mind when considering each of the sources (Just and Wansink; Wrigley, Warm and Margetts; Jetter and Cassady; Epstein et al.; Schafft, Jensen and Hinrichs; Bitler and Haider) described in the annotated bibliography.
Shaw, H. J. (2006), Food Deserts: Towards the Development of a Classification. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 88: 231–247.
His expertise may attract an array of readers, both newcomers and old-timers. It seems that his intended audience might be those who share his love of the desert and also those who want to know more. The essay is quasi-organized like an educational brochure or an expert interview with an inveterate desert denizen. An unintended audience of course might include the fledgling environmental activists who were emerging in the 1960s to fight for the protection of wilderness. Because of its focus on natural history, the article and the anthology, Desert Solitaire, in which it was published, might...
The type of biome where dust bowls are known to occur is in the temperate grasslands. The typical climate in a temperate grassland biome includes very cold winters that drop below -40 degrees Fahrenheit and very warm summers that exceed over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The precipitation level ranges from 10 to 35 inches per year. Most of the precipitation in this biome occurs during late spring and early summer.
In the article, “The Great American Desert”, Edward Abbey (1977) is trying to convince the general public that the desert is not a place for humans to explore. He talks a lot about the dangers of the desert and tries to convince the readers that the desert is not worth wasting your time and going and visiting. I disagree with Abbey. Anyone who has some knowledge about the desert and takes a class or is accompanied by an expert who knows a lot about the desert should be able to venture out in the many great American deserts.
Shaw, H. J. (2006), Food Deserts: Towards the Development of a Classification. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 88: 231–247.
American Crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) are a species of bird found in the family Corvidae, a family that also includes magpies, nutcrackers, and jays (Eastman, 1997). According Eastman’s book Birds of Forest, Yard, and Thicket, there are around forty-two Corvus species, and most of them live in the Northern Hemisphere (1997). American Crows in the United States usually do not migrate, but they do migrate in Canada. Not all American Crows migrate, but they are social birds who form wintertime flocks that sometimes reach over 200,000 birds (Burton et al., 2010).
In Ancient Egypt they use the Nile River and the Sahara Desert in some many ways that benefited them. Ancient Egypt was divided into two land different land, the black land and red land. The black land was the fertile land that the Nile River made and the red land was the desert of Egypt. They use the Nile River for the fertile soil that was left after the river was not flooded, so that they could use that fertile soil for growing crops. They would also use the Nile River for fishing, washing their clothes, and sometimes they would trade with others for resources that they needed. The Sahara Desert was used for protection against other invading armies. The climate was always hot and very dry; this is what made it really hard for farming if you lived in the desert area.
...ivileged benefit from to ensure that those in need receive the help they require – as it is their desert (Guoqinga, 2016). Therefore, desert continues to be a necessary part in the function of justice.
The Namib Desert The Namib Desert is a parched and rippled desert, an endless expanse. It stretches along the southwest coast of Africa from Angola in the north. through Namibia, into South Africa. The name Namib means “emptiness.”
The dessert was called the red land and it only supported small settlements, most of the egyptians lived on the banks of the Nile. The Nile was right in the middle of Egypt and had a special fertile land called the Black land around the shores of the river. The black land was named after the dark soil and silt that was used for farming, without there would be no civilization in egypt. The red land was kind of useless but it was a source for precious metals and stones. The red land was on both sides of the black land and had a dessert that covered 260,000 square miles. However the Nile river was 4,258. Just like along time ago, today ancient egypt is hot and arid and civilization wouldn't have survived without the Nile
Over the past century, the United States has experienced many extreme droughts, all ranging in severity. A drought is defined as the deficiency of precipitation over a period of time which leads to a shortage of water, impacting the community, agriculture, economy, and much more. The intensity of a drought varies depending on the region and its average amount of rainfall. For example, if a region that typically receives rain every day were to go a month without it, they would struggle much more than a region that typically only gets rain four months out of the year. Because of this, there are multiple factors that weigh in on characterizing the drought and its intensity as well as its consequences, both short term and long term, on that specific region. There are several different droughts that have occurred in America that depict the severity of the drought itself and its effects on the region.