Animal Habitats: Desert

How are the Sonoran and Saharan Deserts alike?

• Both have camels and Pronghorns.
• Both are very hot and dry, but cool down at night.
• Both have cactuses.
• Both have oases.

How are the Sonoran and Saharan Deserts different?

• Different plants and animals live in each desert
• There are no snakes in the Saharan Desert.
• There are no lizards in the Sonoran Desert.
• Only the Saharan Desert is dry and hot.

Where do cactuses get water?

• They get water from the ocean.
• They get water from the oases.
• They store water when it rains.
• They get water from a well.

When do animals come out in the desert.

• Most come out in the morning.
• Animals come out before it gets too hot.
• Desert animals come out at night when it cools.
• All of the above.

Most of the Sahara is ______ and _______ .

• wet; cold
• muddy; green
• grassy; warm
• stony; flat

The Sonoran Desert is very ______ and _____.

• rainy: cold
• hot; dry
• stony; wet
• damp; grassy

Camels live in the _________ Desert.

• Sonoran
• Saharan

Gambel's quail lives in the _________ Desert.

• Sonoran
• Saharan

Horned viper lives in the _________ Desert.

• Sonoran
• Saharan

The Saguaro cactus can be found in the _________ Desert.

• Sonoran
• Saharan