Desert

=THE WARM, HARSH DESERT=

INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH
==Deserts are the driest places on Earth. It hardly ever rains there. The desert is a harsh environment. Although the desert has very warm days, it has cold nights. Some deserts are very cold. Deserts get less than 10 inches of rain per year. Deserts take up 20% of the Earth’s surface. Deserts have beautiful rocks and minerals. When a land gets little rain, it turns into a desert. There are two kinds of deserts. The arctic desert and the hot and dry desert.==

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** __Desert Animals__ **
Bobcat __** Desert Plants **__ Creosote bush Quiver tree (Africa) Joshua tree
 * Desert fox (kit) **
 * Kangaroo rat **
 * Western diamondback rattlesnake **
 * Venomous scorpion **
 * Saguaro cactus **


 * keystone plant**
 * Saguaro cactus ** is a keystone plant. It is mostly eaten by the cactus wren. It is a home for lots of animals like: Burrow owl, Cactus wren and Gila woodpecker.
 * keystone animal **
 * Kangaroo rat is a keystone animal of the desert. If people would take all of the kangaroo rats away from the desert, it would turn into a arid grassland. **




 * Young Bobcat ||

Desert Fox (kit)
 * [|desert fox][[image:http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:90yISKwj37INlM:/url?source=imgres&ct=tbn&q=http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1327/1305290163_bd7e55ba57.jpg&ei=jdEETKGJGdf__Qa_ydHJBQ&sa=X&oi=image_landing_page_redirect&ct=legacy&usg=AFQjCNGBQnLtnANxKo6bp0ULtzw6l6e3RQ width="126" height="126" caption="Zobacz obraz w pełnych rozmiarach" link="http://www.google.pl/url?source=imgres&ct=tbn&q=http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1327/1305290163_bd7e55ba57.jpg&ei=jdEETKGJGdf__Qa_ydHJBQ&sa=X&oi=image_landing_page_redirect&ct=legacy&usg=AFQjCNGBQnLtnANxKo6bp0ULtzw6l6e3RQ"]] ||  ||

Kangaroo rat
 * [[image:http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:o8I6V7jHEvMyoM:/url?source=imgres&ct=tbn&q=http://www.westtexaswildlife.org/rat2.jpg&ei=TNMETNiMKtKJ_gbilMHKBQ&sa=X&oi=image_landing_page_redirect&ct=legacy&usg=AFQjCNGjlUY5wV5Cprt-_3EVB-k2Nqujbg width="172" height="119" caption="Zobacz obraz w pełnych rozmiarach" link="http://www.google.pl/url?source=imgres&ct=tbn&q=http://www.westtexaswildlife.org/rat2.jpg&ei=TNMETNiMKtKJ_gbilMHKBQ&sa=X&oi=image_landing_page_redirect&ct=legacy&usg=AFQjCNGjlUY5wV5Cprt-_3EVB-k2Nqujbg"]] ||
 * [[image:http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:o8I6V7jHEvMyoM:/url?source=imgres&ct=tbn&q=http://www.westtexaswildlife.org/rat2.jpg&ei=TNMETNiMKtKJ_gbilMHKBQ&sa=X&oi=image_landing_page_redirect&ct=legacy&usg=AFQjCNGjlUY5wV5Cprt-_3EVB-k2Nqujbg width="172" height="119" caption="Zobacz obraz w pełnych rozmiarach" link="http://www.google.pl/url?source=imgres&ct=tbn&q=http://www.westtexaswildlife.org/rat2.jpg&ei=TNMETNiMKtKJ_gbilMHKBQ&sa=X&oi=image_landing_page_redirect&ct=legacy&usg=AFQjCNGjlUY5wV5Cprt-_3EVB-k2Nqujbg"]] ||

burrow owl

Western Diamondback Rattle Snake

It is important to preserve all types of biomes as each houses many unique forms of life. Deserts cover about 1/5 of the Earth's surface and contain specialized vertebrae, and invertebrate animals found only in the desert biome

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