Desert

FACTS

The Sahara

Desert is
the largest desert in
the world.

People often travel by
camel.

Sahara desert

desert in the world.

DESERT FACTS
Aus
Australian desert
Nearly half of

Australia is a
desert.

You can see kangaroos
there.

DESERT FACTS
Arabian desert
The Arabian Desert has

the most sand
and lots of sand dunes.

DESERT FACTS
Turkestan Desert
There is lots of oil

in the Turkestan Desert

DESERT FACTS
Kalahari Desert
San people live in

the Kalahari Desert in
Southern Africa.

Southern Africa. Extend 900.000 square kilometres. Covering much of Botswana

and parts of Namibia and South Africa. The Kalahari supports some animals and plants because most of it is not a true desert. There are small amounts of rainfall and the summer temperature is very high.

elephant to
giraffe. For predators such as lion and cheetah.

The
riverbeds are now mostly grasing spots. The Kalahari
Desert was once a much wetter place. The Kalahari
supports a variety of fauna and flora. The native
flora includes acacia trees and many other herbs
and grasses. In the rainy season, tens of thousands
of flamingos visit these pans. The Kalahari has a
number of game reserves – the Central kalahari
Game Reserve, the world’s second largest protected
aria. Animals that live in the rigion include brown
hyenas, lions, giraffes, jackals, antelope and many of
birds and reptiles.