Directed toward elementary students, this site provides an overview of the desert biome. Included are the many kinds of deserts, links to related biome web sites, world map of biomes, and photographs of the desert biome.

This resource provides a list of online maps of world vegetation such as biomes, forests and plants.

A map of Asia from 1872, showing physical features including mountain systems, deserts, lakes, rivers with direction of flow, coastal features, and ocean currents, political boundaries and foreign possessions at the time, and commercial...

A map from 1919 of Africa showing the territorial changes made after World War I. The map shows the areas ceded by Germany, including Togo and Kamerun to be decided by British and French mandate, German East Africa under British mandate,...

A map of Asia from 1904 showing country boundaries at the time, major cities, rivers, lakes, deserts, terrain, and coastal features. This map shows the extent of the Russian Empire and Turkish Ottoman Empire in Asia, the Empire of Japan...

Explore the Namib Desert and learn about its location, the Skeleton Coast, mirages, and general information about this home to the highest sand dunes in the world.