Desert

1. Desert By: Kolton, Taylor, Cole, and Matt

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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.