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30 Cards in this Set
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What are the major deserts in the Us
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Great Basion
Mojave Sonoran Cihuahun |
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coastal deserts
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namib
Atacoma |
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have warm temperatures year round
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Tropical Deserts
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Seasonal temperatures
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Temperate deserts
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Type of soil in the desert
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Order- Aridisols
Organics- Low organic Mineral- high Horizons- Poor |
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loose particiles may collect in large moving
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Dunes
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Allow the plants to gather the water immediately
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shallow roots (cacti)
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Deep roots
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Tap roots or Phreatophytes
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live for several years growing in season dormant in non growing
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Perenial life cycle
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1 growing season
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Annual life cycle
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grown plant to produce toxins that will inhibit growth or kill other plants
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Allelo pathy (Cresate Bush)
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Store water in tissues-stem and roots
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Succulents
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Gather condensed water from dew/fog
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darkling beetle
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long appenages
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Allens rule
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Urinating or defocating on oneself for the purpose of cooling down
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Urohydrosis
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Biome furthest north
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Atic tundra
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Is found high on mountain slopes
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Alpine tundra
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types of soil in the tundra
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Order- Gelisols
Organic- LArge amounts Minerals- low Horizons- poorly developed |
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Temperate grasslands are found on every continent except
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Antartica
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Lots of precipitation
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Tall Grass
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Little Precipitation
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shorts grass
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Prairies are found primarily in the
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midwest states
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native animals that maintain grasslands
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Herbivorous grazers
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type of soil in Temperate grass lands
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Order- Mollisols
Organic- Large amount Minerals- Low Horizons-well developed, deep o and a thin B horizon |
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Speed up composition
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Detritivors
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(Annuals) Grasses grown in clumps. Reproduce only using using wind carried seed.
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Bunch Grasses
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Also known as turf grass(Perrenials). Spread using runners
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Sod forming grasses
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conversion of grassalnds into aridlands in result of human activity. caused by poor farming
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Desertification
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Type of soil in Tropical Grass land
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Order- Vetisols
Organic-average mineral-average horizon- poor |
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mamals, 4 legs, herbivorous grazer, hooved feet
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Ungulates
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