The normal summer temperature is 38° Celsius and the normal winter temperature is -2° Celsius. Deserts receive very little rainfall and most water evaporates quickly. The Sahara desert is the largest and hottest desert in the world. Deserts have a variety of plants like cacti, yuccas and trees that have adapted to the dry conditions. Animals living in deserts include horned lizards, kangaroo rats, roadrunners and meerkats that have developed ways to survive the heat and lack of water.

2. The normal Temperature in
Summer is 38° Celsius
And the normal Temperature in
Winter is -2° Celsius
Did you know Desert temperatures
can get up to 100 degrees during
the day and 32 at night.

3. Did you know Deserts are hot
the Sahara areas that
desert is the receive very
little rainfall.
worlds largest
Most of the
and hottest
water that hits
Desert. the ground
evaporates
Did you
within minutes.
know the
only
animals
that can
survive
can burrow
holes under
ground.

4. Did you know? The
largest of all the hot
Did you know? deserts around the
There are Hot world, and covering an
and cold Desert area of 9,400,000
all around the square kilometres, is
world. the Sahara desert.

5. List of
Deserts
• Great sandy Desert
• Thar Desert
• Taklamakan Desert
• Gibson Desert
• Simpson Desert
• Atacama Desert
• Namib Desert
• Dasht-e Kavir Desert
• Mojave Desert
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6. The Great Sandy Desert is hot
and mostly dry. Very little rain
falls there.
Some animal that live the Great
Sandy Desert are
lizards, goannas and red kangaroo
but most of them are endangered
because of animals such as
foxes, feral and cats that also
live in the desert.

7. Thar Desert is the world's
seventh largest Deserts.
The Thar Desert is located in
parts of India and Pakistan and
is known as the Great Indian
Desert. In the winter,
temperatures fall below
freezing, and in the summer,
temperatures can reach to more
than 125 degrees °Fahrenheit.

8. The Taklimakan Desert is
in China it is the largest,
driest, and warmest
desert in China.
Did you Know the Taklimakan Desert covers
an area of 270,000 km and 21,000 km long
and 400 km wide.

9. The Gibson Desert is a desert made
up of sand hills and dry grass. The
desert is about 155,000 square
kilometres (60,000 square miles) in
size.
The Gibson Desert is located in
the central east rangelands of
Western Australia.

10. The Simpson Desert is a hot and
dry desert.
Occupying almost 200,000 square
kilometres of central
Australia, mostly in the Northern
Territory's south-east but also in
parts of South Australia and
Queensland. Rainfall is less than 400
millimetres per year.

11. Some of
the plants
that live
in the
Desert Green Kangaroo Paw
are: Popcorn Flower
Barrel Cactus
Triangle-leaf Bursage
Soaptree Yucca
Saguaro Cactus
Pancake Prickly Pear
Palo Verde
Ocotillo
Mojave Aster
Jumping Cholla
Joshua Tree
Desert Ironwood
Crimson Hedgehog Cactus
Creosote Bush
Chain Fruit Cholla
Brittle Bush

12. The stem and the bases of the flower
is usually deep red and covered with
hairs. The colour then changes to a
nice green. For most of the length of
the flower which splits open to show
a smooth pale green inside.

13. Popcorn flowers are small and white. They
bloom from February through June. They can
also by small as 2 inches and can go up to 10
inches tall. The flowers open starting from
the bottom of the plant moving to the top.
This causes the stem to uncoil.

14. The barrel cactus can be found in
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Mexico. It grows in the desert. It is one
of the largest cactus of the North
American Deserts.

15. The Triangle-leaf Bursage
is a member of the
Sunflower Family. It is
also one of the most
important as it acts a
"nurse" plant from young
cactus that grow in its
shade.
It grows to 2' in height but
most specimens in this area
are less than 1.

16. The Soaptree Yucca is a abundant
evergreen, palm-like shrub or small
tree growing 10 to 18 feet high. The
gray trunk with a diameter of 6 to 12
inches is slightly furrowed below and
covered with dead leaves at the top.
It is usually unbranched and has very
long, narrow leaves.

17. Some of the
animal in the
Desert are :
Horned Lizard
Spotted Hyena
Ostrich
Meerkat
Kangaroo Rat
Roadrunner
Geko
Desert Toad
Texas Horned

18. Horned lizard are lizards that
look like short little animals
with there thin short tails and
short neck and legs, there have
spines on the head, sides, and
back. Horned lizards are colored
for protection from other
animals.

19. The spotted hyena is the
largest and most common
hyena. Other members of
the Hyaenidae family are
the striped hyena, brown
hyena and aardwolf.
The spotted hyena look like
a fierce animal with its big
bony front legs and it coat
with its off-white
backround colour with dark
brown spots.

20. The ostrich is the world's largest bird.
Ostrich cannot fly. They live in the
desert. Because they live in the desert
they get most of their water from the
plants they eat.

21. Meerkat are often seen in
groups, and several families may
live together in a large community.
They often stand on their rear legs
and gaze alertly over the southern
African plains where they live.
Meerkats work together in numbers.
A few will typically serve as
lookouts.

22. Kangaroo rat are small mouselike
animal living in the desert. There
are about 20 kangaroo rat
species.
Kangaroo rats have large, heads
with big eyes, and fur-lined cheek
pouches for food storage, and
extremely long, tufted tails.

23. Dingo
Bighorn Sheep Rabbits
Cactus
Sweetbush
Water and
sunshine!