University:
Michigan State University
Course:
GEO 206 | Physical Geography
Academic year:

2024
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1
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Adowj7b

Deserts of North America Sonoran Desert Range: Located in Southern California, Arizona, and northwestern Mexico. Branches of the Colorado River run through it. Habitat: The Sonoran Desert has large sandy plains and bleak mountains. It stretches over parts of southern California, Arizona, and northwestern Mexico. Branches of the Colorado River run through it, so many trees, cacti and shrubs find enough water to grow there. In Arizona, the giant saguaro cactus and barrel cactus are quite plentiful. Mesquite and creosote bushes also do well there, and after a rain, the hillsides can be ablaze with the yellow blossoms of palo verde. Beautiful flowering cacti and yucca make the desert seem more like a garden than the open sandy place one might imagine. Animals: Animals found here include: desert jackrabbit, kit fox, desert tortoise, elf owls, Gambel’s quail, turkey vulture, kangaroo rat, sidewinder (snake), common poorwill (bird), cactus mouse, chuckwalla lizard, darkling beetle, fringe-toed lizard, and redtailed hawk. Plants: Plants include: saguaro cactus, barrel cactus, mesquite, creosote bush, palo verde, flowering cacti, agave, claret cup cactus, sage brush, brittlebrush, and yucca.