Desert Biomes A desert is a place that has few, or sometimes even no, life forms. Sometimes life forms adapt to living in deserts, but conditions tend to be extreme, and survival is challenging. Some deserts can be visited but not lived in. Some deserts are so inhospitable that life as we know it cannot survive in them at all. In terms of rainfall, areas that receive less than ten inches of rain a year …showed first 75 words of 1774 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1774 total…hide in during the heat of the day and during the cold nights. Warm-blooded rodents are also small, and can survive by eating seeds and nibbling on plants where there is enough plant growth. They have evolved to be able to live with very little water. They are preyed upon by snakes, and perhaps by desert foxes or coyotes or hawks if there is enough vegetation to support a good-sized colony of these plant eaters.