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Dry climates
Dry climates
Definition:
low precipitation and high evaporation rates, leading to arid or semi-arid conditions
1. Animals
There are multiple animal in the dry climate, but here are some examples.
There are multiple animal in the dry climate, but here are some examples.
scorpion
scorpion
Scorpions are predietary arachnids. They live everywhere except Antarctica. With 8 legs, a pair of grasping pinchers & a narrow, segmented tail, often shaped in a curve, always carrying a stinger at the end. The history of scorpions goes back 435 million years. They can live there because it's very dry & lots of crevices for them to hide from the sun.
Fennec Fox
Fennec Fox
The Fennec Foxe lives in the Saharan desert. Fun fact they have the biggest ears compared to their body size of any canid, the ears can reach up to 6 inches. And they eat rodents, eggs, birds, insects and lizards.app.heygen.com/agent/6f45b8b5-3a07-4b8b-9de4-5fd6a944c3c7
Kangaroo
Kangaroo
kangaroo are marsupials and they survive by eating plants because they are herbivores.
Kangaroos are very aggressive towards possible threats
Kangaroo rat
They are found in states like California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, and parts of the Great Plains and Mexico.
They prefer areas with loose, friable soil for burrowing, such as sandy soils in desert washes, alluvial fans, and floodplains.
They like burrowing to escape the harsh desert environment, seeking shelter from extreme heat, predators, and for storing food.
Fennec Fox
Fennec Fox
The Fennec Foxe lives in the Saharan desert. Fun fact they have the biggest ears compared to their body size of any canid, the ears can reach up to 6 inches. and they eat rodents,eggs,birds,insects and lizards.
Kangaroo
Kangaroo
kangaroo are marsupials and they survive by eating plants because they are herbivores.
Kangaroos are very aggressive towards possible threats
Kangaroo rat
They are found in states like California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, and parts of the Great Plains and Mexico.
They prefer areas with loose, friable soil for burrowing, such as sandy soils in desert washes, alluvial fans, and floodplains.
They like burrowing to escape the harsh desert environment, seeking shelter from extreme heat, predators, and for storing food.
2 weather & climate
The weather in dry climates is mostly empty with few clouds, many deserts have hot days & cold nights. Dry climates receive very little rain. They also have high rates of evaporation.
This is a map of the climate zones. Some arid (red) & semi arid
3. plants & food
There are multiple plants & food in dry climates but here are some examples
cactus
cactus
A cactus is a member of the plant family cactaceae, a family of the order caryophyllenes comprising about 127 genera with some 1,750 known species.
Acacia
Acacia
An acacia is a tree or shrub in the pea family, native to tropical and subtropical region
Acacia trees survive in the savanna by adapting to the climate through a combination of deep root systems to access groundwater, and several defenses against herbivores and drought
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