Desert+Facts

There are many animals in the desert. For the invertabrates there are many earthwroms, or semented worms. There are also the well known scorpions. For the vertabrates there are King Corbras, which are very deadly. There are also many birds such as the raven,barn owl and the Golden eagle. Mammals are very popular there are the Coyotes, grayfox's, Camel, and the Jack rabbit. All of these animals have learned to adapt to these very harsh conditions.
 * __Desert Animals__**

There are all different sorts of plants in the desert. There are club mosses, ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms. For the club mosses we have the Selaginella moss. Also for the ferns we have the alpine ferns. Gymnosperms have the Prickley Pear cactus and the Saquaro cactus in there group. Angiosperms contain the Desert Lily, Devils Claw, and Desert Lupine. These plants also have to adapt to the heat of the desert.
 * __Desert Plants__**

There are not many fungi species in the desert. There are three types of fungi's club, sac, and threadlike. Out of these three types i found Desert Varnish and Lichen Crust. Both of these fall under the threadlike type of fungi.
 * __Desert Fungi__**

For the Protist there are two types of them, the protozoans and the algae. The protozoans there are the Amoebae, Flagellates, and the Ciliates. There is one type of algae that I found in my reasearch and that was Green Algae.
 * __Desert Protist__**

There are also two types of Monera the bacteria and the cyanobacteria. The two types of bacteria I found were Eubacteria and Grass bacillus. The cyanobacteria contains Rubrabacter, Bacillus licheniforms, and the Bacillus sulitilis.
 * __Desert Monera__**

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