Block+4+Desert

DESERTS! Deserts have lack of water and food.The desert has hot weather and it has rockstructers or sand duns.Animals could not live at the desert because it hardly has food or water. Deserts will recive less than 10 inches or (25cm) of pricipitation Deserts temperaturs in a day reaches about 140 degrees fahrenheit or (60 degrees Celsius.Deserts have barrel cactus.The barrel cactus can be easly distinguished from other cacti because of the the cylender/shaped body. The barrel cactus can be get up to 5 to 11 feet tall.The ocotillo is the splenders species.The ocotillo is abundent in the southwest because of the soil.The ocotillo is adapted to its evironment by sheding its small leaves during a dry spell.The saguaro cactus has 2 inch spines on it.The saguaro cactus has a smooth skin and waxy skin.The saguaro cactus lives in an expecilly rocky terrian.The saguaro cactus has a a verry strong framework because it has 3 defferent features.The Palo Vedre can servive in desert killing heat.The flowers of the Palo vedre are 1 inch solitary blooms that flowes in late spring.The Jumping Cholla has green leave.The jumping cholla blooms from febuary to may.The Jumping challo stems are about 1.5 inches in diameter.The deserts also have ironwood.the deserts ironwood can live with other plants because its from a family.They are one of the longest living tree in the desert.The mojav aster is anouther plant.The way it got adapted to the ecosystem is it is a member of a family.the way it survives is that it stors water and food.There is another plant in the desert that is called the Polo Verde and can survive in the desert by not dieing by the heat. The Irondwood can live in the desert because it lived with other plants that means that the Ironwoodd would get along with other plants.The saquaro cactus can live in the desert to because it doesnt need water to survive and the spin keeps the plant cool on the outside.TheOctotillo is another plant that got adapted to the ecosystem is that it gets good soil on rocky slopes.The waynthe ocotillo can survive in the desert is that the leaves can grow yo be big as 9 to 30 ft tall and it can obsorbn water earlier.Mojav Aster is another plant in the desert the way it got adapted to the ecosystem is that it can get along with other plants.An animal in the desert is an African Elephant. When the blood vessels in the elephants ear enlarge heat from the blood and skin is released into the air. credits http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/deserts.php http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/desert.htmhttp://library.thinkquest.org/C0113340/main.php?section=biomes&topic=desert http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/desert_eco.html&edu=mid Page created by Silas Woodson and Sean Curry