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The DesertThe Desert

Animals in the Animals in the DesertDesert

More Animals More Animals in the Desertin the Desert

Plants in the Plants in the DesertDesert

More Plants in More Plants in the Desertthe Desert

The DesertThe Desert Animals in Animals in the Desertthe Desert

Animals in Animals in the Desert 2the Desert 2

Plants in Plants in the Desertthe Desert

Plants in the Plants in the Desert 2Desert 2

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What country is the What country is the Sonoran Desert in?Sonoran Desert in?


What is the place What is the place called where an called where an

animal or plant lives?animal or plant lives?


What is the same in What is the same in every desert habitat? every desert habitat?

What may be What may be different?different?


The amount of rain The amount of rain that a desert usually that a desert usually gets in a year is less gets in a year is less

than how many than how many centimeters? centimeters?


All deserts are very, All deserts are very, very what?very what?


How do lizards survive How do lizards survive in the desert?in the desert?


Why do animals hunt Why do animals hunt at nighttime?at nighttime?


What do desert What do desert animals do to survive animals do to survive the heat of the day?the heat of the day?


What do spiny lizards What do spiny lizards have to keep from have to keep from

losing water through losing water through its skin?its skin?


How does staying How does staying underground during underground during the day help animals the day help animals survive in a desert?survive in a desert?


Why do elf owls, Why do elf owls, kangaroo rats, and kit kangaroo rats, and kit foxes hunt at night?foxes hunt at night?


What desert animal What desert animal finds shelter in a cave finds shelter in a cave

during the day?during the day?


What is a lizard’s What is a lizard’s source of water?source of water?


When would desert When would desert animals hunt for animals hunt for

food?food?


What animals get their What animals get their food from the pulp of food from the pulp of

the cactus?the cactus?


Where does a Saguaro Where does a Saguaro cactus store water?cactus store water?


What kind of roots What kind of roots does a Saguaro does a Saguaro cactus have?cactus have?

A.A. short and deepshort and deepB.B. long and shallowlong and shallowC.C. hard and waxyhard and waxy


What carries water to What carries water to the stem of a cactus?the stem of a cactus?


What part of the What part of the cactus keeps hungry cactus keeps hungry

animals away?animals away?


What part of the What part of the cactus has a hard cactus has a hard

waxy covering that waxy covering that keeps it from drying keeps it from drying

out?out?


What is the inside of the cactus

called (insects eat it)?


What is the job of the What is the job of the cactus’s roots?cactus’s roots?


In addition to keeping hungry animals away,

what is another job of the spines of a cactus?


Why is the stem of a saguaro cactus hard

and waxy?


What is the name of What is the name of the cactus we have the cactus we have

been studying?been studying?


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A HabitatA Habitat

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CATEGORY 1 - $300CATEGORY 1 - $300Every desert is Every desert is very dry. Deserts very dry. Deserts may have sand, may have sand,

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They eat They eat insectsinsects

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It is cooler at It is cooler at night.night.

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They rest They rest underground.underground.

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Spiny scalesSpiny scales

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It helps them It helps them stay cool and stay cool and keeps their keeps their skin from skin from

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They want to They want to avoid the hot avoid the hot

sun.sun.

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A batA bat

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During the During the nightnight

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InsectsInsects

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Long, Long, shallow shallow rootsroots

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The rootsThe roots

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SpinesSpines

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PulpPulp

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To soak To soak up the up the

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They keep the They keep the water inside the water inside the

cactus from cactus from escaping into escaping into

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It keeps it It keeps it from drying from drying

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SaguaroSaguaro

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How Water How Water Passes in the Passes in the

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Complete the concept Complete the concept map using the words map using the words lizard, insect, rainlizard, insect, rain::

cactuscactus

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Rain Rain CactusCactusInsectInsectLizardLizard

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