Desert

Deserts are dry areas that experience extremely small amounts rainfall. One of the biggest misconceptions about deserts is that they are all hot. The amount of rainfall, not temperature, determines whether or not an area is a desert. Deserts typically receive less than 30 cm of rain per year.
Deserts can be either hot or cold. Some of the cold deserts even experience occasional snowfall. Deserts are found in such locations as centIral Australia, north Africa, central Asia, and even Antarctica 

In this report you will learn about Hot and Dry Deserts and Cold Deserts. I hope you enjoy!
A Hot and Dry Desert is, as you can tell from the name, hot and dry. Most Hot and Dry Deserts don't have very many plants. They do have some low down plants though. The only animals they have that can survive have the ability to burrow under ground. This is because they would not be able to live in the hot sun and heat. They only come out in the night when it is a little cooler.
A cold desert is a desert that has snow in the winter instead of just dropping a few degrees in temperature like they would in a Hot and Dry Desert. It never gets warm enough for plants to grow. Just maybe a few grasses and mosses. The animals in Cold Deserts also have to burrow but in this case to keep warm, not cool. That is why you might find some of the same animals here as you would in the Hot and Dry Deserts.
Deserts cover about one fifth of the Earth's land surface. Most Hot and Dry Deserts are near the Tropic of Cancer or the Tropic of Capricorn. Cold Deserts are near the Arctic part of the world.
Hot and Dry Deserts temperature ranges from 20 to 25° C. The extreme maximum temperature for Hot Desert ranges from 43.5 to 49° C. Cold Deserts temperature in winter ranges from -2 to 4° C and in the summer 21 to 26° C a year

Animals in the desert:

>  road runner

> Ostrich

>  Meerkal

>Caracalk

> Camel

> Snakes

> cobra

> coyotes

>Texas Horned

> Lizards

>  insects

>scorpion

> Eagle

> And much more

Types of plants

- Wild Flowers

- cactus

- old cactus

- succulents

- Barrel cactus

 

 

Resources

 http://www.desertanimals.net/