Plants of the desert community
Life in the desert
During the day, the desert looks lifeless. Most desert animals hide
where they can escape the heat.
When the sun goes down, a desert quickly cools. Desert rodents look for
seeds. Lizards hunt insects. Snakes hunt the rodents and lizards.
It sometimes rains in a desert. When it does, the desert bursts into
bloom, for there are many seeds in most deserts. But almost all of these
plants quickly wither and die.
