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deserts are really hot in the day and very cold at night it is so dry there that there are barely any plant at all.

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deserts are really dry and only have 90 cm of rain a year so plants have to store the water they get. When it dose rain in the desert it comes in the form of a thunderstorm.

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there are only a few places in the world that there are deserts and these are where they are North Africa, Mongolia-China, Southern Africa, Australia and North America.

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These are only some of the plants in the desert but there are even more than this.

Barrel cactus, pipe cactus, popcorn flower, morman tree and fairy duster.

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The barrel cactus is obviously in the cactus family. It can grow up to 5 ft. high and 2 ft. wide. It’s flower colour is orange or yellow and it blooms in summer.

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Fairy dusters is one of the plants in the desert. Its scientific name is calliandra and it loves the sun and warmth and will grow in almost every kind of soil. The fairy dusters flower is almost a red fluff ball that can grow to an inch wide.

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animals

Addax, camels, fat sand rat, glia monster, great mouse tailed bat, coyotes, road runner, javelina, mountain lion, scorpions, kangaroo rat, ground squirrel, burrowing owl, coopers hawk, elf owl, diamond back rattlesnake, garter snake, chuckwalla, California quail, horned toad, desert big horned sheep, prong horn, rule deer, white tailed deer, bobcats, tarantula and the golden eagle.

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The golden eagle is in the Accipitridae family and its wingspan is 150 to 240cm wide. Its scientific name is Aquila chrysaetos. It eats animals like rabbits, marmots, ground squirrels, and large mammals such as foxes, wild and domestic cats, mountain goats, ibex, and young deer.

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The fat sand rat is a mammal that eats seeds and plants. The fat sand rat is part of the gerbil family and its scientific name is psammony obesus. A fat sand rat can grow up to 14-18.5 cm and its tail can grow to 12-15 cm long. www.Freedigitalphotos.net

Hognose snakehawk

toad

Grass

rabbit

This is a typical food web in the desert

spider

mouse

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sun grass

mouse snake

hawkA food chain starts with the sun and goes onto a producer then the consumer 1 is the mouse eats the grass the snake is consumer 2 and it eats the mouse then the hawk is consumer 3 because it eats the snake

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The biggest desert in the world is the Sahara desert and it is 9,065,000 square kilometres. and deserts cover about one fifth of the earth which is nearly this much of the earth.

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The biggest cold desert in the world is Antarctica.

In the desert most animals don’t need to drink water because most of their moisture from the plants they eat.

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