Deserts

A desert is a hot area of land that gets very little rain—not more than 200 mm a year. Temperatures during the daytime can get as high as 55° C. At night, deserts cool down , sometimes even below 0° C.
Deserts cover about 20% of the world’s land. The biggest is the Sahara desert, which is about the same size as Europe.

Contents : 13  pages

• Introduction
• Location of deserts
• Desert landscapes
• Climate
• Living in a desert
• Plants and animals
• The Sahara desert
• The most important deserts of the world (map)
• Overhead transparencies
• Exercises
• Key

Downloadable Sample of the Full Module (Not Printable) :

• Deserts  - Text and Exercises  (PDF  2 MB)