Desert

Deserts are not only areas of land that are dry and covered in sand. There are also deserts that are strewn with rocks, and others that are cold and icy. Find out about the deserts of the world, and how one of them is so much like Mars that NASA tests its equipment there!

Dividing the Earth up by its biomes is one way of making sense of the different landscapes we see. A biome is a large region of the Earth with its own climate, landscape, plants, soils, animals and water systems, all of which interact to create the biome’s features. Find out how each biome is unique, and what effects humans are having on them.