english p.p.t on desert
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TOPIC :DESERT
DESERT Desert are situated between 5 and 30
degrees north and south latitudes on the either side of the equator. Most of the deserts are on the western margins of the continents. In India, we have the Thar Desert.Desert is lands with out trees. Dessert is sandy areas. As a result of this, life becomes very difficult for people. It is also known as the land of hot sand.. The important characteristic of a dessert is scarcity of water . Life in the desert region is difficult and people have to work hard to make a living.
. They do not have a permanent home. They make pots, pans and tools out of iron. They travel from one place to another to sell their goods. In some parts of the desert the soil fertile. people of Rajasthan live in flat roof houses. They wear bright colored clothes. The men wear dhoti. Kurta and turban.. The main festivals of Rajasthan are desert festival, tees Gangapur, Dussehra, Diwali, Holi and Id.A desert is sandy area with little vegetation. Rajasthan lies south of northern plains. The desert covers most of the state of Rajasthan in the western part of India there is little rainfall in this reason. The desert has an extreme climate. Jaipur is the capital of Rajasthan.
LIFESTYLE OF PEOPLE LIVING IN DESERTS
Many people in the deserts are nomads. Nomads rear cattle like goats, cows and camels. They keep moving from one place to another with their animals in search of food and water for them.
OCCUPATION IN DESERT
Some of them are craftsmen and make a living by selling their goods.
Some people grow crops like bajra, jowar, wheat and mustard seeds. There are also many industries (textiles, sugar, cement, fertilizers, etc.) and mines (lead, zinc, iron-ore, etc.) that provide people of this region with means of livelihood. Handicrafts and jewelers made in Rajasthan are sold in many parts of India and the world.
CLOTHES PEOPLE WEAR The women of Rajasthan
wear colourful ghaghra-cholis with an odhni or chunni. The men wear dhoti-kurta with turbans to protect themselves from the harsh sun.
CLIMATE IN THE DESERTS
The climate in the deserts is extremely hot. The summers are very hot and dry. Sandstorms are common in this season. Water becomes scarce and in many places there is severe drought. Most places receive little or no rainfall. The winter days are sunny and cool. At night, because the sand cools down quickly, it becomes bitterly cold.
TOP FIVE LARGEST DESERTS IN THE WORLD- ANTARCTIC DESERT
• The entire continent of Antarctica receives an annual precipitation of 6.5 inches, which makes it a polar desert. It is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent on earth.
• Located in the southernmost point of the earth, the desert spans over 5,339,573 square miles, which makes it the largest desert in the world.
• Antarctica is also the fifth-largest continent on earth. To give you a general idea about its size, it is 1.3 times as large as Europe.
• More than 99% of the desert is covered by an ice sheet. The ice sheet has been there for 40 million years.
ARCTIC DESERT
• The Arctic Desert is a polar desert that lies in the North Pole, and receives an annual precipitation of less than 10 inches.
• With a surface area of 5,300,000 square miles, the Arctic Desert is the second largest desert in the world.
• During winter, its average temperature is -40 °C. Coldest recorded temperature is -68 °C. During the month of July, the desert has an average temperature ranging from -10 °C to 10 °C.
• Animals that have adapted to the freezing and dry habitat of the Arctic Desert include the polar bear, reindeer, arctic fox, arctic wolf, caribou, arctic hare, snowy owl, and muskox. Vegetation here, mainly comprises grasses, shrubs, mosses, and lichens.
SAHARA DESERT• The third largest desert in the world is the Sahara. It occupies an area of 3,629,360 square miles. The Sahara is also the largest hot desert in the world.
• The desert receives a yearly rainfall of less than 3 inches. It has a sub tropical climate in the north, and a tropical climate, in the south.
• Some of the sand dunes found in this region can be as high as 590 ft.
• The volcano Emi Koussi stands tall at 11,302 feet, as the highest mountain in this desert.
ARABIAN DESERT
• Located in Western Asia, the Arabian Desert covers an area of 899,618 square miles. To give you an idea of its mammoth size, it has in its center, Rub' al Khali - world's largest sand desert, with an area of 250,966 square miles.
• The annual precipitation recorded here is less than 4 inches. The desert has an extremely dry climate, with an average temperature ranging from 40 °C to 50 °C in summer, and 5 °C to 15 °C in winter. Temperatures below the freezing point have also been recorded.
• Plants such as the calligonum crinitum, cornulaca Arabica, and cyperus conglomeratus grow in the desert.
• The desert's wildlife comprises dromedary camels, gazelles, sand cats, the Arabian oryx, spiny-tailed lizards, monitor lizards, and the Arabian cobra.
GOBI DESERT
• The Gobi Desert is in Asia, and is the fifth largest desert of the world, spanning over 500,002 square miles.
• The Gobi Desert is a cold desert, and its name "Gobi" means "very large and dry," in Mongolian. The desert receives no more than 8 inches of rain annually. Some areas of the desert have the worst precipitation conditions; it pours only once every two to three years.
• Unlike most deserts that are choked with sand dunes, the Gobi exhibits mostly gravel plains and rocky outcrops.
• The desert is known for its extreme climate; temperature here ranges from -40 °C in winter to 40 °C in summer.
GEOGRAPICAL LOCATION OF DESERT
CREOSOTA BUSH Creosota bush is known by many names such as “larrea
tridentate” as a plant, “gobernadora” in Mexico, “hediondilla” in Sonora, etc. It is a flowering plant belonging to the family of Zygophyllaceae. It can be found in the deserts of North America, California, Texas, Arizona and Mexico. Creosote bush is an evergreen plant that grows merely 1-3 meters tall. It pertain dark green leaves with leaflets in the opposite direction and joined at the base. These bear yellow flowers with one-inch wide twisted petals. This bush blooms from February till August. They shed off their old branches and die eventually, and this occurs when the plant reaches the age of 30-90. These bushes are mostly found in well-drained soils of alluvial fans and flats. Its foliage acts as a refuge for crickets, grasshoppers and praying mantids
BARREL CACTUS Barrel cactus are found in the southwest desert of
North America and distributed scarcely in a few other deserts all over. These cactus looks like a pineapple with pointed thorns surrounding them. The thorny ribs differ in colour ranging from red to orange depending on its maturity. The Native Americans collected its fruits for emergency use like in extreme drought condition. They even used its sharp spines as fishhooks. This cactus grow over one meter in height and are one of the dangerous forms of cacti. If any of its thorn punctures your flesh, it might lead to severe injury and would take time in healing. Many people believe that barrel cactus is filled with water which is a fallacy since it is actually filled with slimy alkaline juice.
ELEPHANT TREE- Elephant tree, commonly known as the Bursera
Microphylla, is found in the Anza-Borrego Desert Park region of the United States. It grows mainly on the rocky slopes of desert mountains into a sculptural form with thick water-storing trunk. This tree is native to Mexico, Baja California, Sonora and Zacatecas. They are basically small trees, very short and stout with tapering trunks and branches that resembles the legs and trunks of an elephant and hence got its name. They are semi-succulent with alternate leaves and are mostly once-pinnate or twice-pinnate. The fruit it bears is a drupe and contains a yellow stone. Sceptics refuse to acknowledge the existence of elephant trees until 1937 because of its rare growth and poor distribution.
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