what term identifies a dry, desert region containing drought-resistant vegetation?
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Chapter 9: Global Biogeography In low latitudes, savanna and grassland formation classes are found in regions with a distinct dry season; In midlatitudes, west coasts are marked with a strong summer dry period, providing sclerophyll vegetation in coastal regions, and farther poleward, encouraging the growth of lush coastal forests of conifers.
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- 9) What types of vegetation grow in the arid parts of the region? cacti; plants that need little water 10) What features of climate determine a region's vegetation?
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What is Drought? Drought is an insidious hazard of nature. It is often referred to as a creeping phenomenon and its impacts vary from region to region. Drought can therefore be difficult for people to understand.It is equally difficult to define, because what may be considered a drought in, say, Bali (six days without rain) would certainly not be considered a drought in Libya (annual rainfall less than 180 mm).rought is a protracted period of deficient precipitation resulting in extensive damage to crops, resulting in loss of yield. Conceptual definitions may also be important in establishing drought policy.
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KÃ¶ppen Climate Classification System Steppe - Dry Midlatitude Climate (BS) Characterized by grasslands, this is a semiarid climate. It can be found between the desert climate (BW) and more humid climates of the A, C, and D groups. If it received less rain, the steppe would be classified as an arid desert. With more rain, it would be classified as a tallgrass prairie.
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Precipitation History of the Mojave Desert Region, 1893â2001 Cool-season precipitation is the most important and extensive source of rain in the desert region. Rainfall is widespread and of relatively long duration during the cool season. Warm-season precipitation results largely from convective precipitation in the form of thunderstorms.
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The Habitat Encyclopedia: Desert Biome Biomes of the World. The desert biome is divided into the following habitats: 1  Arid deserts-Arid deserts are hot, dry deserts that occur at low latitudes around the world. 2  Temperatures remain warm year-round, although they are hottest during the summer months.y Laura Klappenbach. The desert biome is a dry, terrestrial biome. It consists of habitats that receive very little rainfall each year, generally less than 50 centimeters.
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Desert exists and is an alternate of . A desert is a barren area of land where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to the processes of denudation.
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Desert A desert is a barren area of land where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to the processes of denudation.About one third of the land surface of the world is arid or semi-arid. desert is a barren area of land where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to the processes of denudation.
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What is desertification? Desertification is the process by which environments beomce more like desert. Regions that have low rainfall totals each year are at most risk from desaertification. The regions that suffer from desertification are regions which have a tropical climate with a long dry season followed by a short rainy season.
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- T he hot desert is a land of extremes: extreme heat and extreme dryness; sudden flash floods and cold nights. Because deserts are such a harsh environment, deserts often have names likes Death Valley, the empty quarter, and the place from where there is no return..Dryness. he hot desert is a land of extremes: extreme heat and extreme dryness; sudden flash floods and cold nights. Because deserts are such a harsh environment, deserts often have names likes Death Valley, the empty quarter, and the place from where there is no return.. Dryness.
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Desert Agriculture and Agroforestry In order to improve food security, arid regions should establish desert agriculture and desert agroforestry as their mainstream agricultural technique. Such regions include Africa, the Middle East, and Australia. Desert agriculture is the farming of crops well-suited for arid conditions, such as sorghum.Desert agroforestry is the growing of crops with the environmental support of trees in desert or arid areas. By incorporating these two agricultural techniques,countries should expect two results.ne is the increase in food in desert regions due to the successful growth of specific crops that are well-suited to the dry and hot environment. Other crops would require many more resources and much more maintenance in order to just survive in such a climate.
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- A fertile place in the desert where there is water and some  vegetation is sometimes referred to as an oasis.This area often  contains an abundance of wildlife. have lived well over half my life (40+ years) in the Chihuahuan Desert but have traveled through, hiked and camped in every major desert of the United States and Mexico. I have also traveled the entire length of the Atacama Desert in Chile by land.
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Desert Geological Terms Below are some geologic features and unique charactreristic of the desert regions: Alluvial Fan: A large, fan-shaped pile of sediment forming at the base of narrow canyons onto a flat plain at the foot of a mountain range.
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- This means dry weather—only about 15 inches of rain annually—and vegetation that is mainly short grassesand shrubs. The southwestern states have a desert climate. In thesestates, the weather is usually hot and dry. Less than 10 inches of rainfalls each year.
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Desert Globemallow - Apricot Mallow Sphaeralcea ambigua. This grayish perennial herb, often growing in large clumps, reaches a height of between 20 and 40 inches. It has erect branches and, 3-lobed, scalloped-edged leaves which resemble the Maple. This, the most drought-resistant member of the Mallow Family (Malvaceae), is grazed upon by Bighorn Sheep and domestic sheep and goats. In wet years it forms spectacular orange display across the Desert Southwest.
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- Drylands, people and land use CHARACTERISTICS OF DRYLANDS There is no single agreed definition of the term drylands. Two of the most widely accepted definitions are those of FAO and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD, 2000). FAO has defined drylands as those areas with a length of growing period
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Desertification of the Sahel The Sahel region along the southern border of the Sahara desert was once the home of vast trading empires. Although drought and famine were unavoidable components of life in this harsh region, the people were relatively prosperous and developed agricultural and livestock practices that allowed local populations to endure and recover from the extremes of nature (Office of Technology Assessment 1986).
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- “If we can agree on this definition, we can quantify [or measure] desertification,” says Sharon Nicholson, a professor of climatology at Florida State University. Like Prince, Nicholson has used the vegetation index to study desertification in the Sahel.
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Odocoileus hemionus The dry arid desert is a true desert climate, and covers 12 % of the Earth's land surface. 1  Temperature Range: 16° C. 2  Annual Precipitation: 0.25 cm (0.1 in). 3  Latitude Range: 15° - 25° N and S. 4  Global Range: southwestern United States and northern Mexico; Argentina; north Africa; south Africa; central part of Australia.
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What is desertification? Desertification is the process by which environments beomce more like desert. Regions that have low rainfall totals each year are at most risk from desaertification. The regions that suffer from desertification are regions which have a tropical climate with a long dry season followed by a short rainy season. Suring the rainy season, rainfall is due to a combination of frontal and convectional rainfall. These regions naturally have a savanna ecosystem of grasses, shrubs and trees.
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Mediterranean or Dry Summer Subtropical Climate The Dry Summer Subtropical climate, is also known as the Mediterranean climate because the land that borders the Mediterranean Sea is a type locality for this climate. The wet winter/dry summer seasonality of precipitation is the defining characteristic of this climate.recipitation The most distinguishing characteristic of the dry summer subtropical climate is its seasonal precipitation regime. As discussed above, the dry summer is due to the presence of the subtropical high.
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Desert Vegetation Vegetation Found in Desert. Limited types of plants are found in desert due to the lack of favorable conditions and resources. It comprises plants that have modified or undergone adaptations in order to survive in the desert. These plants are known as xerophytes. desert is a unique geographical feature found on the Earth, which covers almost 1/7th of its surface. It can be defined as an arid land with very less vegetation. The scarce amount of vegetation is seen due to less amount or lack of rainfall (annual rainfall in deserts is 25cms or even less).
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- Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Arid. A region is arid when it is characterized by a severe lack of available water, to the extent of hindering or preventing the growth and development of plant and animal life. Environments subject to arid climates tend to lack vegetation and are called xeric or desertic.
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- It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild, wet winters and hot dry summers) and wildfire, featuring summer-drought-tolerant plants with hard sclerophyllous evergreen leaves, as contrasted with the associated soft-leaved, drought-deciduous, scrub community of coastal sage scrub, found below the chaparral biome.ature chaparral (stands that have been allowed greater intervals between fires) is characterized by nearly impenetrable, dense thickets (except the more open chaparral of the desert). These plants are highly flammable.
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Desert climate Desert climate. The Desert climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk, sometimes also BWn), also known as an arid climate, is a climate that does not meet the criteria to be classified as a polar climate, and in which precipitation is too low to sustain any vegetation at all, or at most a very scanty shrub.
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- Desert The defining characteristic of a desert is that it is dry. Depending on its geographical location, the annual precipitation in a desert varies from half an inch to as much as 15 inches.Rainfall is usually very localized, and although it is frequently seasonal, it is difficult to predict when or where it will occur.eserts may occur along the coast such as the Atacama and Namib deserts or in the interior of continents such as the Great Basin and Australian deserts, which are far from any source of water. Coastal deserts are located on west coasts of continents between 20 to 30 latitude.