Desert+Facts

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   Daniel K.=====  Monerans     : The kingdom of single-celled organisms without a cell nucleus. ==     One example is the //Streptomyces rimosus.// This moneran can be found in the soil. //Escherichia coli// is commonly know as E. coli, this moneran is carried in the wind or it can be found in animal's intestines. Both of these monerans are in the desert climate. ==

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Protists  :                 The kingdom of mostly single-celled organisms with a cell nucleus and organelles. ======

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One example of protists is //Trypanosoma brucei.// This is know somtimes as African sleeping sickness, which can be found in the blood streams in humans and is very harmful. This mostly affects people in Africa. //Naegleria gruberi// can be found in the soil of the Negev Desert in Israel. ======



**       __Fun__gi: Multi-celled with no chlorophyll. Fungi absorb nutrients. //Chaetomium brasiliense is a fungus //. It can be found in soil, air or plant debris. It can be found in multiple deserts. **

Lichen is found in the desert also. This fungus can be found on rocks. The lichen below can be found in Austrailian desert along with other deserts, it's scientific name is //Flavoparmelia rutidota.//

PLANTS =  __Plants__: Multi-celled with cell walls and chlorophyll and produce their own food. =

=== There are 10 divisions of plants out there. Several Mosses, Liverworts, Horsetails and Ferns. The last 2 divisions are Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, these reproduce with seeds while the other 8 reproduce with spores. ===

**Here is the Angiosperm //Opuntia engelmannii//, or Engelmann's Prickly Pear. It is found in New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona.** Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Caryophyllales Family: Cactaceae Genus: //Opuntia// species: //engelmannii// **
 * Knigdom: Plantae[[image:Prickly_Pear.jpg width="203" height="152" align="right" caption="Engelmann's Prickly Pear"]] **
 * Division: Magnoliophyta

** This fern, Cochise Scaly Cloakfern is found in the desert of northern Mexico.

Kingdom: Plantae Sub Kingdom: Tracheobionta Divison: Pteridophyta Class: Filicopsida Order: Polypodiales Family: Pteridaceae Genus: //Astrolepis// species: //cochisensis// **

= = =    = =     = =   This is a Gymnosperm commonly called Mormon Tea because Mormons used it in their tea as a medicine. It's real name is //Ephedus viridis.// This is found in Utah. = **Kingdom: Plantae Division: Pinophyta Class: Gnetopsida Order: Ephedrales Family: Ephedraceae Genus: //Ephedus// species: //viridis//**

**//Equisetum giganteum// is found in the Atacama Desert, which is in Chile. This desert plant is a horsetail.

Kingdom: Plantae Divison: Equisetophyta Class: Equisetopsida Order: Equisetales Family: Equisetaceae Genus: //Equisetum// species: //giganteum//**

California, Arizona, and New Mexico! Kingdom: Plantae Division: Lycopodiophyta Class: Lycopodiopsida Order: Selaginellales Family: Selaginellaceae Genus: //Selaginella// species:** //**eremophila**//
 * Desert spike moss is also know as //Selaginella eremophila//! This plant can be found in

** This is a liverwort! It's scientific name is //Marchantia berteroana.// Which is found in Antarctica.

Kingdom: Plantae Division: Hepatophyta Class: Marchantiopsida Order: Marchantiales Family: Marchantiaceae Genus: //Marchantia// species: //berteroana// **

**This would be a //Bryum argenteum.// More commonly known as silvergreen bryum moss. It lives in every continent except Asia and may even live in your backyard!

Kingdom: Plantae Division: Bryophyta Class: Bryopsida Order: Bryales Family: Bryaceae Genus: //Bryum// species: //argenteum//**

=      Animalia is the kingdom of organisms that eat other organisms and have complex minds and bodies. = =            =

==      Harris's Antelope Squirrel is an omnivore. It eats carrion, arthropods, Mormon Tea plant and Opuntia cacti. It can be found in the Sonoran Desert of Southern California      ==

The Creosote Bush Grasshopper only eats the plant Creosote Bush. This herbivore lives in Southern California.
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Orthoptera Family: Acrididae Genus: //Bootettix// speices: //argentatus//

The Mojave Desert Sidewinder is found in the Mojave Desert and some deserts in Colorado. This carnivore eats small mammals, lizards, and sometimes birds.
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptila Order: Squamata Family: Viperidae Genus: //Crotalus// speices: //crerastes//

==This worm is called Giant Intestinal Roundworm. It lives in people who eat termite mounds in the deserts of Kenya. This carnivore lives in your liver, heart, blood stream, and small intestine. You can find people with this worm in places with poor sanitation or places where they use human feces as fertilizer. This worm eats you and can be fatal.==

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Nematoda Class: Secernentea Order: Ascaridida Family: Ascarididae Genus: //Ascaris// speices: //lumbericoides//

==The worm, //Argilophilus plutellus,// is an earthworm or segmented worm. It eats decaying plants and animals making it a small decomposer. It is found in the Western half of North America.==

species: //volvulus//
==The Oregon Giant Earthworm is a segmented worm that eats decaying plants and animals making it a decomposer. As it's name suggests it can be found in the Western U.S. It's scientific name is Driloleirus macelfreshi.==

The Whipworm or //Trichuris trichiura// is a mean, human eating, carniverous, round worm. It lives almost everywhere in the world.[[image:200px-Trichurisspmale.jpg align="right"]]
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Nematode Class: Adenophorea Order: Trichurida Family: Trichuridae Genus: //Trichuris// species: //trichiura//

The Cheetah can be found in many places. In the desert regions it can be found in sub Sahara in Africa. It feasts on hoofed animals and rabbits, making this animal a carnivore.
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Felidae Genus: //Acinoryx// speices: //jubatus// subspeices: //hecti//

====**      Bobcats live the Calfornia deserts. This is an omnivore because it consomes grass, fruit, deer, rodents, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and invertibrates. **====

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Felidae Genus: //Lynx// species: //rufus//

==== ** The Sand Cat is native to the Sahara desert, and all over North Africa. This is a carnivore who eats small mammals, insects, birds, and lizards. ** ====

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Felidae Genus: //Felix// <span style="background-color: rgb(237,222,222);">species: <span style="background-color: rgb(237,222,222);">//margarita//

The White Desertsnail lives in the deserts of California. This herbivore eats moss and lichens.
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Order: Stylommatophora Family: Helminthoglyptidae Genus: //Ermarionta// species: //immaculata//

====**This carnivore eats birds, small mammals, insects, earthworms, reptiles, and amphibians. The American Kestrel Lives in the deserts of Califonia.**====

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Falconiform Family: Falconidae Genus:  //Falcon// speices: sparverivs

==This Cane Toad lives in the deserts of Australia. This is an omnivore who eats whatever it can fit in its mouth, mainly toads, mammals, beetles or things that don't move.==

Genus: //Bufo//
speices: //marinus// ====**  The Mojave Rattlesnake lives in the northern most deserts of Colorado, and the Mojave Desert. This is a carnivore who eats rodents, lizards, snakes, birds (and their eggs,) and insects. **====

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptila Order: Squamata Family: Viperidae Genus: //Crotalus// species: //scutulatus//

==This carinvore eats rats, squirrels, mice, chipmonks, pocket gophers, reptiles, insects, earthworms, eggs, birds, and dead animals. This American Badger or Taxidae taxus lives in the northern coast deserts of California.==

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Mustelidae Genus: //Taxidae// species: //taxus//

==The Mule deer lives in the desert of southwest United States. This herbivore eats herbs, vines, grass, twigs, fruit of cactus, and leaves. It's scientific name is //Odocoileus hemionus//.==

Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae Genus: Odocoileus species: hemionus

This termite, //Gnathamitermes tubiformans//, is a decomposer, it decomposes wood. This bug lives in the deserts of middle America.
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Isoptera Family: Termitidae Genus: //Gnathamitermes// species: //tubiformans// = = ==      In the deserts of New Mexico and Kansas lives the Swift Fox. The //Vulpes velox// is a omnivore, feasting on small mammals, fish, birds, insects, berries, grasses, repties, and amphibians. ==

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Canidae Genus: //Vulpes// species: //velox//

==       The Red Tail Hawk or //Buteo jamaicensis// lives all over the desert in North America. This bird is a carnivore because it eats small rodents and snakes. ==

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Falconiform Family: Accipitridae Genus: //Buteo// species: //jamaicensis//

==       Desert Bighorn Sheep or //Ovis canadensis// is a herbivore. They eat Mormon Tea plant, cactus, twigs, grasses, and shoots. They are found in deserts of many states including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and Colorado. ==

==       Mourning Doves are omnivores and will eat snails, insects and grasses. They are found in and around the Mojave Desert. They are known to ecologists as //Zenaida macroura//. ==

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Columbiformes Family: Columbidae Genus: //Zenaida// species: //macroura//

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Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata Family: Iguanidae Genus: //Sauromalus// species: //ater// ==       South of the Mexican border and into the desert of California, lives the Wild Burro. This mammal is a herbivore and eats grass and forbes. ==        Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Perissodactyla Family: Equidae Genus: //Equus// species: //asinus//

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptila Order: Chelonia Family: Testudinidae Genus: //Gopherus// species: //agassizii//

==The disease Dracunculiasis is carried by the parasite tape worm //Dracunculus medinesis// or Guinea Worm. It eats (and lives in) many mammals of the African desert.==

==The Mountain lion or Puma is one of the largest predators of North America. //Puma concolor// is a omnivore because it eats mule deer, rabbits, fish, grass, and berries. It can be found all over North America.==

==Mojave Collared Lizards eat bugs and arachnids such as the fig beetle. Its' scientific name is //Chrotaphytus bicinctores//. This carnivore lives in the Mojave Desert.==

==Jackrabbits or //Lepus californicus// eat most vegetation though they prefer grass and forbes. Jackrabbits live in the Mojave Desert==

==Fig beetles (known to the scientific community as //Cotinis texana// ) eat figs and other ripe fruits. Thus they are a threat to Southern farmers. This is a herbivore, and lives in the Mojave desert.==

==The //Dipodomys deserti// or Desert Kangaroo Rat can hop like a kangaroo but it lives in the Sonoran Desert, not Australia. It is a herbivore and eats seeds, leaves, buds and fruit.==