A desert is a landscape or region where there isn’t a lot of water or rain.

In the desert it doesn’t rain more than 250 millimetres per year.

One finds deserts where there aren’t any trees or grass.

About one third of the land on Earth is a desert.

There are two different types of deserts in the world.

There are hot deserts and cold deserts.

A hot desert is made up of sand and rocks.

During the day the temperature is very high but during the night it is very low.

In Summer the temperature reaches 45OC or more and in Winter it goes down to 0OC.

The largest hot desert in the world is the Sahara in northern Africa.

Other hot deserts include the Arabian Desert, the Gobi Desert in Syria and the Great Victoria

Desert in Australia.

Sahara Desert

Arabian Desert

Gobi Desert

Great Victoria Desert

Many people think that there isn’t any life in the

desert but they are wrong because there are a

lot of animals and plants in the desert. Most

animals come out at night when it is not so hot.

prickly pear cacti desert holly

brittlebush

Saguaro cacti

kangaroo rat

coyote

camel

Our class made these camels during a crafts lesson on a Wednesday afternoon.

This picture has been drawn by Antoine . This picture is in Egypt as one can see the pyramids besides the palm trees, the sun

and the desert sand.

On these maps we coloured orange some of the major

deserts.

The cactus and palm trees always seem to be present in

our classmates’ paintings.

This is our displayed

work about the deserts.