Diary of a traveling survivalist
Dear diary,
Today I investigated the desert. I investigated the hot and the cold deserts. Deserts can be found in the United States, Africa, Asia, and even Antarctica. Out here in the desert there is a harsh unforgiving terrain. The climate in both is almost unbearably dry. In the hot desert, there are extreme temperatures. In the day, the temperature is sweltering hot and at night it is freezing cold. The cold desert retains the cold temperature throughout the day.
In the hot desert, the ground is covered in a rocky and gravely soil that has good drainage preventing the surface water. On top of this soil is the fine-grained sand that captures the heat of the sun. In the cold desert, there is quite some snowfall in the winter. The snow covers the ground and hides the rocky landscape from view. The lack of water makes living in the desert a challenge.
Some keystone species include cacti that hold water, humming birds that pollinate plants, and kangaroo rats that improve the quality of the soil. Some adaptations the flora has are in hot deserts replete leaves (leaves with nutrients e.g. weathered trees) that conserve water(cacti), reduced leaves in cacti (spines), and in the cold desert there are spiny leaves to deter animals from eating them (camel’s thorn). The fauna or animals in …show more content…
A flora adaptation is the bear berry. It grows low to the ground to escape harsh winds. I found it very useful when cooking with my food. I made tea with the roots to help with my cough. The Labrador tea plant is a fascinating species. In the warmer parts of the tundra it grows straight, but in the colder parts it bends downward to escape the freezing temperatures that higher altitudes bring. The Arctic moss grows in the marshes formed when the snow melts to get water. When it isn’t growing, it stores nutrients to be made into
Dear diary,
Today I investigated the desert. I investigated the hot and the cold deserts. Deserts can be found in the United States, Africa, Asia, and even Antarctica. Out here in the desert there is a harsh unforgiving terrain. The climate in both is almost unbearably dry. In the hot desert, there are extreme temperatures. In the day, the temperature is sweltering hot and at night it is freezing cold. The cold desert retains the cold temperature throughout the day.
In the hot desert, the ground is covered in a rocky and gravely soil that has good drainage preventing the surface water. On top of this soil is the fine-grained sand that captures the heat of the sun. In the cold desert, there is quite some snowfall in the winter. The snow covers the ground and hides the rocky landscape from view. The lack of water makes living in the desert a challenge.
Some keystone species include cacti that hold water, humming birds that pollinate plants, and kangaroo rats that improve the quality of the soil. Some adaptations the flora has are in hot deserts replete leaves (leaves with nutrients e.g. weathered trees) that conserve water(cacti), reduced leaves in cacti (spines), and in the cold desert there are spiny leaves to deter animals from eating them (camel’s thorn). The fauna or animals in …show more content…
A flora adaptation is the bear berry. It grows low to the ground to escape harsh winds. I found it very useful when cooking with my food. I made tea with the roots to help with my cough. The Labrador tea plant is a fascinating species. In the warmer parts of the tundra it grows straight, but in the colder parts it bends downward to escape the freezing temperatures that higher altitudes bring. The Arctic moss grows in the marshes formed when the snow melts to get water. When it isn’t growing, it stores nutrients to be made into