The desert introduction:
Hello everybody, I´m Mihail and I´m going to tell you a few things about how deserts are, how´s the temperature there and explain how is living in a desert.
What is a desert?
As we all know, deserts are very dry or arid areas with low vegetation. Deserts cover about one third of the Earth´s land. There are deserts in every continent.
Next, I´m going to tell you a few things about the desert temperature:
Deserts are so dry and their humidity is so low, that they may get very hot during the day and very cold at night. Sand and dust storm are natural events that occur in arid regions where the land is not protected by a covering of vegetation as the desert where I am right now. We classify deserts by the amount of precipitation that falls, by the temperature that prevails, by the causes of desertification or by their geographical location.
Now,I´m going to name the ten largest deserts on Earth:
The ten largest deserts are: the Antarctic desert,the Artic desert, the Sahara desert, the Arabian Gobi desert, the Patagonian desert, the Great Victoria desert, the Kalahari desert, the Great Basin desert and the Syrian desert.
Living in a desert:
Next, I will tell you a little bit about living in a desert. There are people linving in most of the Earth´s deserts. The Bushmen in Kalahari, the Aborigines in Australia and the tribes of North American Indians, are some of the desert inhabitants. They were originally hunter-gatherers. They used to hunt animals to eat but in the dry season it was hard to find animals for meat so they were eating insects, plants and berries instead. They used to get water from the roots of plants to survive. Other cultures developed a nomadic way of life as herders of sheep, goats,camels, etc. Living in a desert is an extreme living!
Desert typical animals:
Finally, I will talk about some of the desert typical animals: the fennec fox, the scorpion, the rattlesnake or the jerboa are some of the desert animals we can found here.
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