If you went to a desert you could see many things. What you would see would depend on what type of desert you were looking at. If you were looking at a cold desert you would see a ice covering the ground. You wouldn't see may plants close together most plants would have leaves like pine trees. Mainly you would see small herbivores with some larger carnivores in the winter you might see a deer. In a hot desert you would see the ground was covered by either gravel, dirt or sand. There would be mostly short shrubs and grasses with a few trees and cacti. A coastal desert would look quite like the hot desert, and a semi-desert would look like a hot desert with more plant and animal life, since there is more rain.
The Atacama desert is in Chile it only gets 1.5 cm. of rain per year, what type of desert do you think it is.
In average, how much rain do you think deserts in general get per year?
Sources:http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/deserts.php#coast
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I didn't know there could be cold deserts! Wow, I always thought there were only hot deserts! You have totally changed my way of thinking about deserts. Now I know that deserts are basically just areas with extreme temperature; with not much biotic life, except the semi-deserts. I think the Atacama desert is a semi-desert, because it gets more rain than hot deserts.
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Hanna :)
IT's kinda cool how there could be cold deserts. I never knew that. It can either be really hot or really cold.
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I think the Atacama desert is a hot desert because it barely gets any rain each year. There are also deserts that are only rocks or only sand or only ice. Most people only think of deserts as sand and cactuses but it's really cool how there are many kinds.
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I think this dessert doesn't get very much rain each year which makes it so dry and hot. But i think it is reaally cool that there could be a cold dessert. I never knew that and now if I think of a dessert, it isn't just dry and hot. It could be cold.
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I think the deserts in Chile are hot deserts because they get so little rain and it's hot. :)
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The desert doesn't get a lot of rain. When I looked it up it said i got about 2-4 cm of rain per year.
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