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.