Desert

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The desert biome can be found between 35 degrees and 50 degrees north latitude in the interiors of Asia and North America. This is a middle latitude desert. This type of desert has little precipitation, less than 25 Cm's annually. The organisms in this type of desert consist of widely scattered shrubs and cacti. Deserts have few animals such as reptiles, insects, and rodents that are active at night to escape the bitter heat. The animals also need to have adapted to drought conditions. The Organisms that inhabit this area need to survive with low water levels. The Desert isn't just all dry and sand there is also dry polar deserts which are farther north have lower temperatures of 10 degrees Celsius and they can have frozen water puddles that are 5 meters thick and the area supports little to no life. Dry deserts are deserts with an average temperature of 113 degrees Fahrenheit and may not have rain for 3-7 years at a time and also supports little or no life whatsoever
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The desert climate has very harsh living conditions. There is so little rain that not much vegetation can grow in the desert. The rainfall in deserts varies upon what desert. In some deserts there is less than 1 inch and in some theres up to ten inches. The desert is in the Subtropical climate zone. Temperatures in deserts are normally around 40-45 degrees Celsius. At night time temperatures can get down to below freezing. Some examples of deserts are the Sahara and Saudi Arabia.
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