Other
Worldbiomes.com: Desert Biome
Directed toward elementary students, this site provides an overview of the desert biome. Included are the many kinds of deserts, links to related biome web sites, world map of biomes, and photographs of the desert biome.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Science for Kids: Desert Biome
Kids learn about the desert biome. The dryest areas on Earth still have plant and animal life.
Center for Educational Technologies
Earth Floor: Desert Biome: Animals
Site provides information on desert animals and animal adaptations. Offers links to desert plants and their adaptations, other biomes, and more.
The Wild Classroom
The Wild Classroom: Biomes of the World: Desert Scrub Biome
Learn about the desert scrub ecosystem. Find out about plants, animals, adaptations, and conservation efforts.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Desert
Students will enjoy a general description of a desert habitat, an easy-to-understand chart of the largest deserts in the world, and brightly colored pictures and descriptions of desert animals complete with printouts. There is also a...
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Biomes: Great Victoria Desert
Describes the geography of the Great Victoria Desert in Australia, its biodiversity, conservation status, and the types of threats to its biodiversity that it faces.
BBC
Bbc Nature: Wildlife: Desert
Explore the fascinating world of the desert and discover what lives and grows there through videos, pictures, news, and external links. Listen to the various sounds happening in the desert.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Biomes: Etosha Pan Halophytics
Article on the Etosha Pan saline desert in Namibia, which is what remains of a lake from the Pliocene Epoch. Describes its geography, climate, plants and animals, its conservation status, and threats to its biodiversity. (Published:...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: The Desert
Learn about the plants and animals that live in the desert. Book includes audio narration in 8 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: Spring Comes to the Desert
Learn about springtime in the desert and the plants and animals that live there. Book includes audio narration in 20 additional languages with text in English.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Animals of the Desert
Learn about different types of animals that live in the desert biome such as the cactus wren, the desert lark, the dingo, the fat sand rat, the fennec fox, the Gila monster, and so on. Animal pictures and information is taken from the...
University of California
Ucmp: The World's Biomes
This is an introduction to the major biomes on Earth. This page groups biomes into five major types: aquatic, deserts, forests, grasslands, and tundra. Information on climate, animal/plant life, and much more is given for each of type...
University of California
Ucmp: The World's Biomes
The University of California Museum of Paleontology hosts this site devoted to the study of the earth's biomes, which are the world's major communities, classified according to the predominant vegetation and adaptations of organisms to...
Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy: From America's Rainforest to America's Desert
On this virtual field trip, teachers will help their learners travel to the lush, rain-soaked splendor of the Olympic Peninsula and explore the urban watershed of Seattle. Next, they will head to Arizona's dry, desert landscape and take...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Biomes
This interactive resource adapted from NASA describes the different temperature, precipitation, and vegetation patterns in seven biomes: coniferous forest, temperate deciduous forest, desert, grassland, rainforest, shrubland, and tundra.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Biomes
Discover the hidden treasures in the different habitats on the earth! The earth is filled with many biomes. Examples of different biomes are listed and include hyperlinks to additional information such as the animals found there.
Palomar Community College District
Major Biomes of North America
A good review of basic terminology followed by descriptions and pictures of the North American biomes.
Read Works
Read Works: Desert or Rain Forest?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text comparing and contrasting a desert and a rain forest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Tramline
Desert Field Trip
Use this site to find out how deserts are formed, where the largest desert is located and if there are different types of deserts.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Plants of the Desert
The Evergreen Project reveals such desert plants as the dragon tree, the saguaro cactus, the prickly pear, the desert spoon, the aloe plant, and the like. Illustrated.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Facts About the Gobi Desert
Desertification is a growing problem in the world today and it is taking place in the Gobi Desert as well. Learn facts about the Gobi Desert, including its five ecoregions, the climate, and the flora and fauna.
Nature Conservancy
Nature Conservancy: Planet Earth: Deserts and Aridlands
The desert areas in the United States that this organization is working to protect are portrayed through photographs and videos, showing the beauty of the landscapes and the diversity of life forms there.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Mojave Desert Animals and Plants
Describes characteristics and adaptations of plants and animals that are able to survive in the Mojave Desert and a list of each.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Reference: Habitats: Desert
This entry identifies the defining characteristics of the desert.
Other popular searches
- Desert Biomes Texas
- Desert Biome Threats
- Desert Biome Model
- Desert Biomes Mobile
- Desert Biomes Songs
- Temperate Desert Biome
- World Desert Biomes
- Desert Biomes in Africa
- Research Units Desert Biomes
- Desert Biomes Unit Plan
- Desert Biomes Experiments
- Desert Biome Puzzles