The Sahara DesertLiana Morreale, Mathias Benson, Emily Marmo,

Evan Vanden Heuvel

Sahara desert

• The Sahara desert is the world’s largest desert. it is one of the hardest environments to live in on the planet. It is the largest desert that is hot. The Antarctica and the Arctic are the largest cold deserts which are bigger than the Sahara.

• Limited plants, animals, and people.

More about the Sahara• The Sahara desert is the largest and hottest desert

in the world located in North Africa

• The Sahara has one of the harshest climates in the world

• The Sahara is made up of sand dunes, sand seas, gravel plains, stone plateaus, salt flats, dry valleys, rivers, streams, mountains, and oasis

• There is a small amount of grasslands

• The mountains are up to 580 feet tall

• The desert has less than 10 inches of precipitation

The start of our survival plan

We will be in the desert during the months of January, February, and march.

Each of us will have in our bags lots of water, a salty snack to replenish electrolytes and prevent hyponatremia, sunscreen, a hat, a rag, and hand sanitizer.

Since the desert is extremely hot to survive we need to be wise about what we will do.

One of the biggest killing factors in the desert is panicking. You must stay calm.

How would you survive?

• In the desert you should stay under cover and get out of the sun.

• Make sure you drink a lot of water• If you have a limited amount of water,

drink it slow and rationalize it.• Take naps and go to bed when its after sun

down because that’s when the heat is better.

• If you need more water use a rock to break open a cactus and you can receive water from the plant.

What would you eat?• People in the Sahara desert eat goat,

camel, wild birds ,and insects such as lotus. People often drink camel and goat milk. Animals eat mostly the vegetation such as Acacia trees and thyme. Thyme is the largest source of food for animals. These animals you can not get easily so in a quick need of food eat what you brought. You only want to eat if you have a lot of water. You can eat plants like agave and cactus.

Where would you live?

• There are 2.5 million people that live in the Sahara desert.

• They live in little towns called "Hug Towns"

• They build their houses out of Adobe

• Most of the people living in the desert live on the outside of the desert

• Some live in the middle of the desert.

• You can create a tripod out of sticks and leaves in an emergency.

What would you see?

• Lots of sand

• Palm trees

• Oasises

• Camels

• Many animals and insects

What lives in deserts?

There are a various varieties of animals that live in the Sahara Desert

• Some of them being a Gerbil, Jerboa, Hare, Hedgehog, Spotted Hyena, and Jackal

Some plants are

• Hyphaene thebaica, Oleander, and Date Palm

Climate characteristics

• The Sahara's climate consists of two sub-climates, A dry subtropical climate in the north and a dry tropical climate in the south.

• The dry tropical climate has mild, dry winters, a hot dry season just before the rainy season, and an annual temperature cycle.

• The dry subtropical has cold winters, hot summers, two rainy seasons and the high temperature ranges.

• Winters in the north are cold to cool.

• Winters are mild in the south.

Map of the world showing all areas where the biome is located

Climatogram of the yearly precipitation and temperature of your site.

We will be in the Sahara Desert from

January to March. In January it will be

125.6 degrees Fahrenheit. In

February it will be 122 degrees

Fahrenheit. Lastly in March it will be 118.4 degrees Fahrenheit.

Sources of "natural" renewable energy.

• Installing wind and solar power plants in the Sahara could turn some of the landscape green.

• Because of the sun it could be easily done but it can also be difficult.

• To keep food cold you can put it under the sand in the shade. To keep food hot or cook it you can put it in the sun.

List of native animals can be eaten

• Camels

• Kangaroo rats

• Addax

• Meerkat

• Tarantula

• Jackal

• Coyote

• armadillo

Organisms that will pose a threat to you and how you will defend yourselves

• There are scorpions that run around on the dunes of the Sahara

• To defend yourself from these small creatures you can wear large boots that are heavy and can cover your entire foot

• Many venomous snakes populate the sand of the Sahara

• The best possible way to defend yourself is to wear protective clothing in case of stepping on one

• always Stay 6 feet away from a venomous snake

How you are going to avoid impacting destroying the environment while the showis there.·

In order to avoid destroying the environment:

conserve your water so you don’t have to take it from a

cactus.

Do not interfere with animals

especially if they are doing

nothing to you

Construct a food web that includes contestants and other organisms in your biome.

• This food web shows what some animals/ plants in the Sahara may eat