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The desert environment can also contain mountains ; such is the case in Afghanistan and in certain areas around Israel.
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The desert environment extends all the way to the Red Sea coast.
The amount of rainfall has resulted in the base being classified as a semi-arid desert environment.
The latter definition comes from the fact that the path to water is the whole way of life in an arid desert environment.
Wildlife adapted to this hot, dry environment and seasonal flooding includes the Water-holding Frog ( Litoria platycephala ) and a number of reptiles that inhabit the desert grasses.
The physical environment of Uzbekistan is diverse, ranging from the flat, desert topography that comprises almost 80 % of the country's territory to mountain peaks in the east reaching about above sea level.
It is a desert environment receiving under 10 inches of annual precipitation, covered mostly by shrub-steppe vegetation.
The San Luis Valley is an alpine desert environment which is conducive to solar energy production.
The mountain people hated the desert environment of San Carlos, and some frequently began to leave the reservation and sometimes raid neighboring settlers.
The park protects the northwest corner of the Mojave Desert and contains a diverse desert environment of salt-flats, sand dunes, badlands, valleys, canyons, and mountains.
The park is home to many species of plants and animals that have adapted to this harsh desert environment.
They were a nomadic people living in small groups given the sparse resources available in the desert environment.
Northern regions and island communities for tropical or desert climates use cooking methods that reflect their environment with a higher proportion of cooking outdoors and using barbecues more frequently than the southern regions that may have cold and wet winters.
" Lane explained that in contrast to the busied, bohemian urban lives of the New York abstract expressionists, the rural desert environment Van Vliet was influenced by is a distinctly naturalistic one, making him a distinguished figure in contemporary art, whose work will survive in canon.
The inside of the hoop can be formed to any type of planetary environment, from desert to ocean to jungle to glacier.
In the environment of a desert, such honeydew rapidly dries due to evaporation of its water content, becoming a sticky solid, and later turning whitish, yellowish, or brownish ; honeydew of this form is considered a delicacy in the Middle East, and is a good source of carbohydrates.
Despite the Sahara's erratic and unpredictable rainfall patterns, the Tuareg have managed to survive in the hostile desert environment for centuries.
City of Soap LakeSoap Lake is located in the center of the state of Washington, 20 miles north of Interstate 90 between Seattle and Spokane, sitting in a desert environment with nine inches or less of rainfall per year and 320 days of sun.
The Northern Paiute's pre-contact lifestyle was well adapted to the harsh desert environment in which they lived.
Harris argues that while cattle, sheep and many other domesticated animals consume grass, pigs in a desert environment are poor grazers and must compete with humans for grain.
It lives in a predominantly desert environment visiting oases and palm groves.
The surrounding environment is unimportant: it can be forest, grassland, desert, estuarine mudflats, an ornamental city park, or industrial wasteland, provided only that there is open water able to support a sufficient supply of food.
The burrow of a kangaroo rat is important in providing protection from the harsh desert environment.
They inhabit a range of different habitats, from swampland to desert, and generally feed on small rodents, supplementing their diet with birds and other small animals, depending on their local environment.
The high elevation, semi-arid desert environment of Lava Beds Monument receives an average of of annual precipitation.
Their reliance on agricultural strategies based on canal irrigation, vital in their less than hospitable desert environment and arid climate, provided the basis for the aggregation of rural populations into stable urban centers.
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Furthermore, Linda & Morris Tannehill argue that no coercive monopoly of force can arise on a truly free market and that a government's citizenry can ’ t desert them in favor of a competent protection and defense agency.
The five primary classifications can be further divided into secondary classifications such as rain forest, monsoon, tropical savanna, humid subtropical, humid continental, oceanic climate, Mediterranean climate, steppe, subarctic climate, tundra, polar ice cap, and desert.
For example, frogs in cold climates can survive for extended periods of time with most of their body water in a frozen state, while desert frogs in Australia can become inactive and dehydrate in dry periods, losing up to 75 % of their fluids, yet return to life by rapidly rehydrating in wet periods.
They can also be found in the funerary architecture of the desert tribes ( e. g., Libyan Ghirza ).
One of the rare examples of Islamic fresco painting can be seen in Qasr Amra, the desert palace of the Umayyads in the 8th century Magotez.
The Angolan giraffe can be found in desert environments.
It forms as an evaporite, and is associated other evaporites such as calcite and halite ; if it incorporates sand grains as it crystallizes, gypsum can form desert roses.
Gobi rangelands are fragile and are easily destroyed by overgrazing, which results in expansion of the true desert, a stony waste where not even Bactrian camels can survive.
Błędów Desert the only desert in Poland is located in Lesser Poland, where temperatures can often reach up to 38 ° C ( 100. 4 ° F ) in the summer.
As the area behind the coast is a desert, these winds can develop into sand storms with sand deposits in the Atlantic Ocean visible on satellite images.
The rain can provide a cooling relief from the scorching desert heat.
The featured species are California condors ( the wild animal park was the key force in the recovery effort for these birds and this is one of the only places in the world where the public can see them in captivity ) and desert bighorn sheep.
This position was stated by King George V in his first Christmas Message by saying that the " men and women, so cut off by the snow, the desert, or the sea, that only voices out of the air can reach them.
The San Luis Valley receives little precipitation and is made up of desert lands, but the temperatures can be very comfortable in the summer and very cold on winter nights.
Sometimes, all or nearly the entire population can desert the town, resulting in a ghost town.
Its great biological diversity can be attributed to the presence of five of the seven life zones and three of the four desert types in North America.
Solpugids, wood spiders, garden spiders, black widow spiders and tarantulas can be found in the desert scrub and higher elevations.
Many desert areas have limestone hills or mountains within them or close to them that can be exploited as groundwater resources.
Other agricultural problems include soil infertility, land degradation and erosion, swarms of desert locusts, which can destroy whole crops, and livestock diseases.
Having evolved on a desert world, Vulcans can survive without water for longer periods than humans.
The loud call or bray of the donkey, which typically lasts for twenty seconds and can be heard for over three kilometres, may help keep in contact with other donkeys over the wide spaces of the desert.
However, ecosystems ranging from pinon-juniper studded plateaus, high desert, green alpine forest and barren tundra can all be found within a short drive of Flagstaff.
San Jacinto Peak's eastern shoulder has a cable tram that runs from the desert floor to nearly the top of the mountain where riders can set off hiking or go cross-country skiing.
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