DESERT

Gabriel Demmings and Vincent Carbonaro

Desert

A desert is a region that receives extremely low amounts of any precipitation. It's extremely hot during daylight hours and can fall below freezing at night. This conditions are almost impossible for plant life.

Definition: a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all

Map of Biome:



Biotic Factors: Cactus, Camels, Sand boa, scorpions, lizards, insects, coyotes, and eagles.

Abiotic Factors: The abiotic factors of such an ecosystem includes soil (sand), sunlight, temperature, air and water.

Additional Info: Thar desert, Arabian desert, and the Great Basin desert are famous deserts. Cactus are known in being most deserts. There are known for being extremely hot but most people don't know during night time its freezing.