477990
Description
Mind Map by Tom Cahill, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Tom Cahill
over 10 years ago
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Hot Desert Biome
- Climate
- very dry
- 0mm -
250mm
- Day: 45
Night:<0
- anti-cyclones
- convectional
rainfall
- flash floods
- erodes deep
gullies
- evaporates before reaching
ground
- night dews
- diurinal
climate
- very dry
- Soil
- aridsol soils
- do not favour plant
growth
- rocky
- rocky
- lack of chemical
weathering
- rainfall
- rainfall
- no horizons or OM
- Salanation
- poisonous to
plants
- poisonous to
plants
- calcification near
surface
- hard pan
- hard pan
- rusty
- sun burned
- sun burned
- aridsol soils
- Vegetation
- have to
adapt
- mesquite
plant
- taproots -
50m
- taproots -
50m
- Cacti
- thin spines
- transpires
less
- transpires
less
- waxy seeds
- hibernate
- hibernate
- thin spines
- Paper Daisy
- ephemeral
- ephemeral
- saguaro
- grooves in
stem
- allows it to
expand
- allows it to
expand
- thorns
- still air
- prevents
wilting
- prevents
wilting
- still air
- grooves in
stem
- have to
adapt
- Sahel
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