Introduction
This website was created to give information on a desert ecosystem. There is information on plants, animals, climate and land forms and humans. All of this information will help answer the question-whose needs are more important - wild animals or humans?
Climate
The climate of the Sonoran desert in the summer is 40 degrees Celsius to 48 degrees Celsius [which is 104 degrees Fahrenheit to 118 degrees Fahrenheit]. It may also drop to 10 degrees Celsius [50 degrees Fahrenheit] in the winter. In the fall it is a high: 84.1°F (28.9°C) and low of 56.5°F (13.6°C). In the spring it is the high of 71.9°F (22.2°C) and the low of 43.8°F (6.6°C). It also has three to fifteen inches of rain per year.
Land Forms
There are obviously, as every desert has, mesas in the Sonoran Desert. A mesa is like a hill or mountain, but with a flat peak.The word mesa comes from the Spanish word "mesa" it means table. People call a mesa a table-top, sometimes. There are not very many mountains in the Sonoran Desert, for a big desert, there are mountains that are short, medium-sized, very few large mountains though.
The Sonoran Desert is in Arizona. |