A desert seems like a tough place for plants to live. There’s little water, and the ground is hard and dry. But many plants and animals survive in deserts.
It doesn’t rain often in a desert. And when it does, the ground dries quickly. So the roots of most desert plants spread far out just below the surface of the ground. The roots can then catch every drop of water that falls. Most desert plants store up all the water they can get.
During the day, the desert looks lifeless. Most desert animals hide where they can escape the sun’s heat – under a rock, underground, or even in a hole in a cactus.
When the sun goes down, a desert quickly cools. Desert rodents look for seeds. Lizards hunt insects. Snakes hunt the rodents and lizards.
It sometimes rains in a desert. When it does, the desert bursts into bloom because there are many seeds in most deserts. But almost all of these plants quickly wither and die as the ground dries again.
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