DESERT By: Kolton, Taylor, Cole, and Matt

Limiting Factors

The major limiting factor is extreme heat this makes it almost impossible for most animals to live there.

Density independent-The temperature of the desert makes it so very little animals can live there.

How has your biome been destroyed, or how can it be destroyed?

The desert biome has been destroyed by urban expandment.

Global warming has also effected the desert biome, the is hardly any water anymore.

Major Threats

Global warming is a threat in the desert because it is drying up water holes.

Two many animals grazing that is destroying the vegetation.

Nuclear waste is being dumped in the desert and nuclear power plants is being placed in the desert which is destroying habitats

Endangered Species

Prairie Dog- The prairie dog is going endangered because of lost habitat, because of urban development

Ocelot- There is only 100,000 ocelots left in the United states, they are being hunted for their fur and sometimes they hit by cars during migration

Gorilla- Gorilla’s are extinct in the desert because of illegal hunting and advanced civilization

White Rhinoceros- are extinct because of loss of habitat due to advanced civilization

Positive and negative human effects

A negative human effect is poaching they are killing many of the animals in the desert.

A positive effect is that not many people are living in the desert, so they are not destroying to many habitats.

Climate Change

The average temperature is from 84 to 112 degrees Fahrenheit

50-89 cm of rainfall a year The desert is expanding rapidly but is

also drying up the water holes, due to global warming.