cold desert

COLD DESERT😋

Where can you find it?

We  can find it in: Antarctic, Greenland, Northern and Western China, Turkestan, Iran and the Nearctic area.

Characteristics:

Snow in winter, rain in spring and in autumn.

Summers are short and wet.

Average temperature in winter: -2º and 4º

Average temperature in summer: 21º and 26º

Vegetation:

There is little vegetation. Plants can be between 15 and 122 cm high.

In some areas we can find ground covers such as liquens. In other areas plants are far away from each other.

We can see grasses, shadscale and camelthorn.

Animals:

We can see deer and polar bear in winter.

We can see small mammals such as rats, miece, squirrels, fox, coyote and lizards in spring, summer and autumn.

Jack rabbits, snakes and wolves are part of this ecosystem too.

We see insects when it's rain season.

Foodchain:

Mosquito is eaten by lizzard.

Lizzard is eaten by fox.

Fox is eaten by wolf.

Wolf is eaten by descomposer when is dead.

Human interaction:

Cold deserts are areas with very few inhabitants. So human impact is very limited in cold deserts.

Positive:

Cold deserts are officially protected, banning many destructive human activities and allowing natural life to grow.

Negative:

Global warming is detroying many ecosystems due to the temperatura increase of the planet, caused by human actitity.