Like most people when I thought of the desert I thought of lots of sand, cactus, dry, tumble weeds, and how thirsty I had just made myself. I thought of the movie, Spy's Like Us. We think of this because that is what TV says it looks like. Arizona is a desert yet it still has more than sand, rocks, and cactus. Even the Sahara has green landscape in some parts of it. It doesn't all look like Egypt or Iraq. If it grows in one desert it will grow in another.
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| Small Shrub Grows in the Sahara in Algeria |
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| Small Silvery Leaf Shrub Grows in Sahara in Algeria |
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| Sahara in Algeria |
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| Sahara - Algeria |
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| Sahara - Morocco |
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Even part of the Sahara in Morocco has
palm trees and grass |
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Wow - The homes blend so well with the desert that they are virtually invisible.
This only makes the plant life of the Sahara Desert in Morocco stand out! |
[ I would bet anyone who lives on a golf course would want to to the same thing & make the golf course stand out. It would cause the value of their home sky rocket but, devalue the homes around it. ]
It goes without saying that sand dunes are present in both the Sahara Desert and AZ Deserts. Notice that grass alive and growing in the pictures above and is dormant in the ones to the left. In areas in the Sahara in Algeria when it rains small lakes or ponds will be created and grass will begin to grow around it. Since nobody is there to water it, it just doesn't grow. It is there, it's just laying and waiting for someone to water it.
So, why does everyone try to mimic a desert landscape without grass? Our entire world would have a grass carpet if water was available. To me this means that our earth needs grass or it would not grow in the desert from just a little bit of rain.
It goes without saying that sand dunes are present in both the Sahara Desert and AZ Deserts. Notice that grass alive and growing in the pictures above and is dormant in the ones to the left. In areas in the Sahara in Algeria when it rains small lakes or ponds will be created and grass will begin to grow around it. Since nobody is there to water it, it just doesn't grow. It is there, it's just laying and waiting for someone to water it. 
So, why does everyone try to mimic a desert landscape without grass? Our entire world would have a grass carpet if water was available. To me this means that our earth needs grass or it would not grow in the desert from just a little bit of rain.
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