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The Desert climate, also known as an arid climate, is a climate in which precipitation is too low to sustain any vegetation
at all, or at most a very scanty shrub, and does not meet the criteria to be classified as a polar climate. An area that
features this climate usually experiences from 25 to 200 mm per year of precipitation and in some years may experience
no precipitation at all. Averages may be even less such as in Arica, Chile, where precipitation normals annually stand at
around 1 mm per year. In some instances, an area may experience more than 200 mm of precipitation annually, but is
considered a desert climate because the region loses more water via evapotranspiration than falls as precipitation.
CLIMATE
POLAR TEMPERATE TROPICAL ARID COLD
BIOME CLIMATE HABITAT
CHANGE
ADAPTATION ENERGY ADAPTATION
CON RUCTION
ANIMALS PLANTS COMMUNITY URBAN H. NATURAL H.
RUCTURAL RUCTURAL VERNACULAR MARINE
ADAPTATION ADAPTATION ARCHITECTURE HABITAT
PROTECTIVE BEHAVIOUR MODERN TERRE RIAL
COLORATION ADAPTATION URBANIZATION HABITAT
MIMICRY RAINFORE
BEHAVIOUR DESERT
ADAPTATION GRASSLAND
BIOCLIMATIC ADAPTABILITY
HIBERNATION FORE
WITH EMPHASIS ON VERTICAL EXPANSION
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