Sahara Desert
food
how big is it
plant life
Prickly Pear Cactus
Sahara desert: 9.2 million km²
Different Deserts
Black Rock Desert. Length 100 mi (161 km) Area 1,000 sq mi (2,590 km2)
Biome Lahontan Playa ecoregion and Salt Shrub Basin ecoregion
Atacama Desert 105,000 km². ...
Gobi Desert Gobi Desert 1.295 million km². ...
Negev Desert The Negev covers more than half of Israel, over some 13,000 km² (4,700 sq mi) or at least 55% of the country's land area. It forms an inverted triangle shape whose western side is contiguous with the desert of the Sinai Peninsula, and whose eastern border is the Arabah valley.
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Mojave Desert. 124,000 km² ...
Antarctic 14 million km²
cactus berrys
Saguaro cactus
Prickly pear cacti
Brittle Bush
Palo Verde
Soaptree Yucca
cacti
Desert Ironwood
Joshua Tree
Cylindropuntia fulgida, the jumping cholla, also known as the hanging chain cholla, is a cholla cactus native to Sonora and the Southwestern United States.
Saguaro Cactus
Desert Christmas Cactus
Agave
Chia Sage
Pinyon Pine
Cholla Cactus
Mesquite
cactus meat
animals
Monitor lizard
Mice
Snakes
enpra peguin
wolves
foxes
horses
ermine
polar bears
reindeer
caribou
Badger
Armadillo
African Wild Dog
Deer
Xerocole
Giraffes
Wild Catele
Camel
Cheetahs
scorpion
the sahara desert takes up about one third of the planet
The central part of the Sahara, known as the Libyan Desert, is the driest, receiving an average of less than 1 inch of rain per year. Other parts of the Sahara receive an average of up to 4 inches of annual rainfall.
How to live in the Sahara Desert?
Some of the people who live in the Sahara raise crops on irrigated land in an oasis. Others tend flocks of goats, sheep, and camels. These herders find grass for the stock along the desert's fringe or where sudden rains have fallen. They live in tents so they can move easily as soon as the grass is eaten in one place
the Sahara Desert grows about 10 percent larger ever century
Growing Deserts. ... But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert. In some cases global warming is predicted to increase the area of deserts, which already cover a quarter of Earth
animals
list of animals
African Wild Dogs
Armadillo
Bighorn Sheep
Bison
Bobcat
Coyote
Gray Fox
Jack Rabbit
Jackal
Kangaroo Rat
Long-tailed Weasel
Mountain Lion
Mule Deer
Porcupine
Pronghorn
Ringtailed Cat
Shasta Ground Sloth
Skunk
Spotted Hyena
Squirrel
Wild Burros
Wild Horses
Wolves
Zebras
fennec fox