| Central Question: Where are the planet's arid and semi-arid regions located, and how does their physical location impact the ecosystem? Guiding Thought Question: What perceptions do you have of a desert? Why might those perceptions not be exactly true? Provide an example Today's Learning Objective: Students will discuss issues related to the world's arid and semi-arid regions, and take notes about where and why deserts are located where they are, and what are some particular issues related to deserts. |  |
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Bob
2/14/2022 08:54:54 am
Dry and hot. Antarctica is a desert and is cold and surrounded by water
emma m
2/14/2022 08:55:38 am
deserts are very very hot and dry. they don’t support a lot of life. cacti and small shrubs, reptiles, minimal mammals. little to no water and precipitation. those perceptions all seem true to me 🤷🏼♀️
Sienna
2/14/2022 08:55:48 am
They are near or on the equator. Because of this it gets a lot of sun so there isn't a lot of vegetation because of the extreme heat. It also makes the animals in that area smaller.
Sienna
2/14/2022 08:59:59 am
answered the wrong question.
Ant
2/14/2022 08:56:58 am
Hot and dry. Not a lot of vegetation
Jack Smith
2/14/2022 08:57:59 am
Barren and void of life, but life can and has adapted to such hospitable environments with sometimes surprising diversity.
Peter Sukstorf
2/14/2022 08:58:56 am
Deserts are dry. Sometimes they're hot, sometime's they're cold. Sometimes they have lots of rocks, sometimes they have lots of sand. Sometimes deserts are full of people and cities, sometimes they're empty. Sometimes deserts have snow, sometimes they don't. Sometimes deserts have plants, other times they're barren.
Emily
2/14/2022 09:01:13 am
Dry and hot with little plants and animals. This is not always true though as antarctica is a desert, but it is freezing there
Bea
2/14/2022 09:01:50 am
When I think of a desert I immediately think of a hot and dry barren land. This is probably because of how deserts are portrayed in movies and TV shows, and it is often the only type of desert taught in schools. For example, most of Antarctica is considered a polar desert
Riley Martin
2/15/2022 12:21:30 pm
I would say dry and hot, barren. I know looking at it you would think that it would host very little life, but it has so many different species that have very interesting ways to survive the environment.
izzy martin
2/15/2022 12:26:18 pm
i think of deserts as pretty dry, hot, and inhospitable. not all deserts are hot though, because Antarctica is a desert and its real cold! deserts do have things living in them though, obviously.
Daniel Montes
2/15/2022 12:39:53 pm
Well the deserts that i have been in, It wasn't that hot or dry, as I was in mexico in the winter and there were a fair amount of desert shrubs and some trees kept alive by a nearby stream that somerimes dry out or by people.
emma
2/15/2022 12:52:13 pm
they are all super dry and hot with little to no life and the deserts are red, empty, full of rocks, clear sky 2/15/2022 01:28:56 pm
not a lot of flora or fauna, hot, and dry Leave a Reply. |
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