Desert

Abbigail Arias, Christopher Ragalye

Where is ecosystem located?

• They are mainly found in America.

• A desert covers Nevada.

• The same desert It also covers parts of Arizona.

Describe the abiotic factors of your ecosystem

• Warm air from equator makes it very hot.

• Very little rain fall that amount of rain fall is 10 inches a year.

• Some deserts are very cold at night.

• Hot during the day.

Producer: Saguaro cactus. How does your producer rely on other organisms in the desert to survive? • Nurse plant gives saguaro shelter.

• Bats, birds, and bees eats seeds and drop them and they become a cactus.

• Field mice drop seeds after eating berries.

How do other organisms of your ecosystem rely on your producer to survive? • Birds make homes in saguaro cacti(elf owl +

white winged dove)

• Bats, birds get food from saguaro cacti

• Insects get food from saguaro cacti

• Scorpions make homes in saguaro cacti.

• Snakes get shade in saguaro cacti

• Pack rats lay young in saguaro cacti

How do humans affect your ecosystem? • People get fruit from saguaro cacti.

• They spilled oil into the desert.

• People drive automobiles in the desert

Choose one biotic or abiotic factor in your ecosystem & describe how a change in one of these could your ecosystem.

• Change. Our change is weather - making it cold and have more winter like tempatures

• if we did that the saguaro cacti would freeze.

• The snakes shade would be gone.

• The bats would not have no food.

other interesting facts • The world’s highest temperature in the Sahara

Desert is 136⁰F

• Did you know that there is such thing as the honey pot ant?

• When another ant wants a drink the honey pot ant spits up the honey.

Sources Used

• Allaby, Michael. Biomes of the world. Danbury , CT: Gorlier Educational, 1999. Print.

• Dayton, Connor. Desert Animals. New York, NY: PowerKids Press, 2009. Print.

• Steele, Christy. Deserts. New York, CT: Steadwell Books, 2001. Print.