What is a desert biome?
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The desert biome is an ecosystem that forms due to the low level of rainfall it receives each year. Deserts cover about 20% of the Earth. There are four major types of desert in this biome - hot and dry, semiarid, coastal, and cold. They are all able to inhabit plant and animal life that are able to survive there.
Features of the Desert Biome are as follows:-
1. The desert biome stretches in the dry region of the world where there s very little raintall.
2. The deserts are located around the tropic of cancer and tropic ot capricorm, between latitude 15° to 35° north and south.
3. The annual rainfall is very less (less than 25 cm).
4. Flora and fauna are found very less.
5. The main deserts sare the Sahara desert of North Africa, the Thar, Gobi and Tibet desert of Asia.
6. Sahara is found in North Africa.
7. Gobi desert is cold desert.
8. Sahara and Thar are the hottest desert.