Hot and Dry Deserts are warm throughout the fall and spring seasons and very hot during the summer. the winters usually have very little if any rainfall. Cold Deserts have quite a bit of snow during winter. The summer and the beginning of the spring are barely warm enough for a few lichens, grasses and mosses to grow.
Temperature
Hot and dry deserts average: 20 to 25 C
In extreme cases the desert can heat up to 49 C
Cold deserts in the winter: -2 to 4 C
Cold desert in summer: 21 to 26 C
In extreme cases the desert can heat up to 49 C
Cold deserts in the winter: -2 to 4 C
Cold desert in summer: 21 to 26 C
Rainfall
Hot and dry desert: average of 15cm per year
Cold deserts often have snow and rain in the spring: an average of 15 to 26cm annually.
Cold deserts often have snow and rain in the spring: an average of 15 to 26cm annually.
Sunlight
Typically around 10 to 12 hours a day are filled with sunlight.
Weather
The temperature in the desert can change drastically from day to night because the air is so dry that heat escapes rapidly at night.
Arrangement of vegetation
-Plants in the desert are very scattered partly because of the lack of shade.-
-10 percent of the ground is covered with plants.
-The height of scrub varies from 15 cm to 122 cm.
-All plants are either deciduous and more or less contain spiny leaves.
-Hot and Dry Deserts vegetation is very rare. Plants are almost all ground-hugging shrubs and short woody trees. All of the leaves are replete (packed with nutrients).
-10 percent of the ground is covered with plants.
-The height of scrub varies from 15 cm to 122 cm.
-All plants are either deciduous and more or less contain spiny leaves.
-Hot and Dry Deserts vegetation is very rare. Plants are almost all ground-hugging shrubs and short woody trees. All of the leaves are replete (packed with nutrients).
general geographic features
-10 to 20% of the desert is covered with sand
-Other landforms include alluvial fan, butte, dunes, mesas, oasis, plateau, and canyons.
-Other landforms include alluvial fan, butte, dunes, mesas, oasis, plateau, and canyons.