The document summarizes information about deserts, including: - The Sahara Desert is the largest desert in the world, located in Northern Africa covering over 3.5 million square miles. - Great Sandy and Great Victoria are two deserts located in Australia, with Great Sandy being the second largest desert in the world. - Deserts can experience very hot days over 120 degrees Fahrenheit, and cold nights below freezing, though it rarely rains in most deserts.

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2. WEATHER AND CLIMATE
The weather and climate in the deserts are hot.
49 degrees in the day time on a winter day
On a winter night it can be 48 degrees
On a summer day it’s a top of 120 degrees
It rarely rains.
On rainy days it can drop to 25 degrees www.freedigitalphotos.net

3. The desert can have rain, but hardly rains at all. It
depends what desert but it also depends if it drops
lower than 25 degrees.
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Electronic devices are affected by the hot weather.
The hot desert weather will most likely damage
electronic devices.
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6.  Fact 6. The deserts today are popular because
of the tourist that go to the deserts
 Fact 7. The hottest desert which is the Sahara
reaches up to 122 degrees
 Fact 8. only 3% of the Australian population
live in the desert.
 Fact 9. it didn’t rainfor over 39 years in the
Atacama desert in Chile.
 Fact 10. In some deserts the temperatures fall
below cold
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7.  Fact 11. sand dunes can be as tall as 300m
 Fact 12. there is over 1,200 species of plants
found in the Sahara desert
 Fact 13. More than one third of the earth’s land
surface is covered by deserts.
 Fact 14. Sand dunes can move
 Fact 15. Gila monsters are just venomous
lizards
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8. Sahara – north Africa
Gobi – Mongolia – china
Kalahari - southern Africa
Great Victoria –Australia
Great Sandy – Australia
The locations of deserts can be in a lot of places in
the world. So far world wide there are only 5 deserts
that people know of.
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9. The Sahara Desert is in Northern Africa .
It is 3,500,000 square miles away and 9,065,000
square miles. So that means the Sahara is the
largest Desert on earth. It is the hottest biome.
It is extremely hot on dry days.
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10. Great Sandy and Great Victoria are in Australia
Great Sandy is the second largest desert n the
world and great sandy is in northern territory.
Great Victoria only has a little bit of ran but more
then expected for a desert.

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Pipe cactus Mojave aster
Barrel cactus Joshua tree
Popcorn flower chain fruit cholla
Mormon tea native buttercup
Fairy duster
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12.  Dertiltikis
 Brittle bush
 Palo Verde
 Jumping cholla
 Ocotillo www.freedigitalphotos.net
 Desert ironwood
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13.  Some animals in the desert are:
 Camel
 Armadillo
 Bobcat
 Banded glia monster
 Cactus wren
 Coyote
 Javelina
 Meerkat
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14.  The red kangaroo is the world's largest
marsupial. The female red kangaroo only has one
baby at a time. The baby climbs into the pouch
straight away and does not come out until about
2 months.
 Red kangaroos hop along on their powerful back legs
and they hop at a good speed.
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15. The flamingo, a large wading bird that can live in big shallow
lakes, sandy islands lagoons, mangrove or swamps.
They can be found in Africa, Asia, North America, Central
America, South America, and Europe. Flamingos can live nearly
everywhere. Adult flamingos can be 3.3 to 4.6 feet tall. They can
weigh up to 3.3 to 9 pounds.
There are 6 species of Flamingos.
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17. A plant gets energy
Sun from the sun, the plant
gets eaten by a insect
an insect get eaten by a
lizard a lizard gets
eaten by a snake
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plant
animals Snake
Lizard

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sun
The grass attracts it’s energy
from the sun, the grass gets eaten
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from mice and the mice gets
eaten by dingos
grass Dingos
Mouse
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Animals in the desert
Plants in the desert
Locations of the desert worldwide
What happens in the desert if it rains
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