The Desert is a dry hostile place, the largest being the Sahara in Northern Africa.

We usually consider the desert to be scorching hot, and it is, but at night the temperature can drop well below zero.

Most of the time the only water recieved by the Desert comes from mist or fog.

The Desert is constantly moving and being shaped by the sandpaper wind that is so rough it erodes rocks.

We see the Desert as a dry inhospitable landscape that nothing could live in, but there are so many species living in the Desert

that we hardly notice, this is because most of them are nocternal.

There are also large quantities of desert plants such as, grasses, cacti, desert flowers and desert trees.

Deserts are also inhabited by some hardy people such as, the Egyptians and the Bushmen of the kalahari.

Most deserts are formed by a ridge of mountains blocking the rainclouds from moving in, this is the reason that so many deserts are right next to a rainforest.

We might see the Desert as hostile, but for many creatures it is the only home they've ever known.