Travel with your students on a virtual field trip and explore the deserts of the world! This is site is interactive and informative.

Students will enjoy a general description of a desert habitat, an easy-to-understand chart of the largest deserts in the world, and brightly colored pictures and descriptions of desert animals complete with printouts. There is also a...

Not all deserts are the same. This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features views of different deserts around the world.

Learn about the four types of deserts: hot and dry, semiarid, coastal, and cold with this key facts and information. Includes links to other biomes: aquatic, forest, grasslands, and tundra.

Learn about the desert scrub ecosystem. Find out about plants, animals, adaptations, and conservation efforts.

On this virtual field trip, teachers will help their students travel to the lush, rain-soaked splendor of the Olympic Peninsula and explore the urban watershed of Seattle. Next, they will head to Arizona's dry, desert landscape and take...

The evolution of amphibians from prehistoric days is described, and the challenges they face when living in a desert environment, of which the ability to reproduce is the greatest. How they manage to survive in a desert is explained in...

The ways in which animals have adapted so as to survive in a desert environment are described in this article. Mechanisms that humans have to help them cool themselves in a desert are also explained. (Published: December 17, 2009)

Describes the geography of the Great Victoria Desert in Australia, its biodiversity, conservation status, and the types of threats to its biodiversity that it faces.

Learn about the plants and animals that live in the desert. Book includes audio narration in 8 additional languages with text in English.

Learn about springtime in the desert and the plants and animals that live there. Book includes audio narration in 20 additional languages with text in English.

Explore the fascinating world of the desert and discover what lives and grows there through videos, pictures, news, and external links. Listen to the various sounds happening in the desert.

The ways in which plants have adapted through evolution in order to survive in a desert environment are described in this article. Getting water and retaining water are key to their survival, including protecting themselves from animals...

Discusses the habitats in the Sonoran Desert region and the subdivisions of the Sonoran Desert (Lower Colorado River Valley, Arizona Upland, Plains of the Sonora, Central Gulf Coast, Vizcaino, Magdalena, and foothills of Sonora)....

One of the last remaining high-desert ecosystems in North America, this resource presents an overview of the Red Desert in southern Wyoming offering its geographic features, local wildlife, and the threats to the lands.

This collection uses primary sources to explore twentieth-century mining in the Mojave Desert.

This excellent resource from the San Diego Zoo presents extensive information on the desert tortoise including details about its habitat, physical characteristics, size, diet, family life, conservation status, and fun facts.

Use this site to find out how deserts are formed, where the largest desert is located and if there are different types of deserts.

From the Sonoran Desert in North America to Colorado's Great Sand Dunes all the way to Africa's Namib Desert, explore these incredible deserts and discover what scientists are doing to preserve these great lands. Peruse through an online...

The U.S. Geological Survey provides information on what a desert is, how the atmosphere influences aridity, where deserts form, types of deserts, desert features, eolian processes, types of dunes, remote sensing of arid lands, mineral...

The Evergreen Project reveals such desert plants as the dragon tree, the saguaro cactus, the prickly pear, the desert spoon, the aloe plant, and the like. Illustrated.

Describes many of the plants and animals that live in deserts and their special adaptations that have enabled them to survive there. Also describes four types of deserts.

Resource looks at the different types of insects, mammals, reptiles, and birds found in the desert and the strategies they use for survival.

Desertification is a growing problem in the world today and it is taking place in the Gobi Desert as well. Learn facts about the Gobi Desert, including its five ecoregions, the climate, and the flora and fauna.