 Very dry almost no rain  Can be very hot in the day but cold in the night  Sandy,crumbly, rocky and little or no plants  Have small leaves or no.

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 Very dry almost no rain  Can be very hot in the day but cold in the night  Sandy,crumbly, rocky and little or no plants  Have small leaves or no leaves just spines. Sometimes only cacti

 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south latitude In the shadow mountains and can be found in Mexico and Canada

 The desert use to be a big ocean but when global warming came along it turned into a big dry land

 the desert takes up 20% of the earths space

 There are lots of poisonous animals in the desert like scorpions and spiders

 A desert receives less than 10 inches of rain per year