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William B. Rice

Consultants

Timothy Rasinski, Ph.D.

Kent State University

Lori Oczkus

Literacy Consultant

Thorsten Pape

Animal Trainer

Based on writing from

TIME For Kids. TIME For Kids and the TIME

For Kids logo are registered trademarks of

TIME Inc. Used under license.

Publishing Credits

Dona Herweck Rice , Editor-in-Chief

Lee Aucoin , Creative Director

Jamey Acosta , Senior Editor

Heidi Fiedler , Editor

Lexa Hoang , Designer

Stephanie Reid , Photo Editor

Rachelle Cracchiolo , M.S.Ed., Publisher

Image Credits: pp.1213, 2021 Alamy;

p.2627 Tourre Marc/Age Fotostock; p.33 (top)

The Bridgeman Art Library; p.57 (bottom) Corbis;

pp.4041 Pablo Cceres Contreras/Flickr; p.21

(bottom) Joseph Brandt/U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service; p.22 (owl) John and Karen Hollingsworth/

US Fish & Wildlife Service; pp.4, 17 (bottom),

22 (inset), 4445 Getty Images; p.38 (bottom)

iStockphoto; pp.5253, 53 (top & bottom) Lochman

Transparencies; p.46 Greg Neise/AFP/Getty

Images/Newscom; p.47 (left) Malcolm Schuyl/

FLPA Image Broker/Newscom; p.4 Cara Owsley

KRT/Newscom; p.43 Tui De Roy/Minden Pictures/

National Geographic Stock; pp.4243 Maria

Stenzel/National Geographic Stock; p.54 National

Wildlife Federation; pp.89, 18, 19 (illustrations)

Timothy J. Bradley; p.9 (inset) Tom McHugh/

Photo Researchers, Inc.; pp.3435 Superstock; p.57

(middle) University of Pennsylvania; p.56 IUCN.org;

p.41 (inset) Alvesgaspar/Wikipedia [CC-BY-SA]; p.54

Greenpeace.org; pp.5051 Martybugs/Wikipedia;

p.57 (top) The White House Historical Association;

p.23 Hollingsworth, John and Karen/US Fish and

Wildlife Service; p.14 Steve Maslowski/U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service; All other images from Shutterstock.

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Deserted .......................

Life on the Planet ................

Endangered ....................

North American Deserts ..........

African Deserts ................

Asian Deserts ..................

South American Deserts ..........

Australian Deserts ..............

A Helping Hand ................

Glossary ......................

Index .........................

Bibliography ...................

More to Explore ................

About the Author ...............

Table

of

Contents

Deserted

Just imagine it. Its a new school year. There are

hundreds of kids in the halls and classrooms. Every

desk is taken. Teachers stand in each room. The

principal greets everyone at the door. The secretary

sits in the office. The custodian mops up a spill, and

the librarian places books on the shelves.

As time passes, you notice empty desks here and

there. Then, strangely, more and more are deserted.

Your favorite teacher is missing. The principal is

nowhere to be found. The spill is left unattended.

Books are stacked in piles everywhere. Outside on

the streets, things are eerily quiet, too. Where did

everyone go?

And then you realize the horrible truth. People are

dying off. There are fewer and fewer human beings.

Your species is horribly endangered . You are among

the very last of your kind. Will your species survive?

Where did everyone go? And then you realize the

truth. There are fewer and fewer humans. Your

species is endangered, and you are among the last of

your kind.

Humans are lucky. This isnt really happening.

But around the world, animals are threatened. They

face this scenario every day.

.

What animals call the desert

their home?

.

In what ways are they in danger?

.

How can we help protect desert

animals and their homes?

Life on

the Planet

We live in a beautiful world filled with life in many

forms. Plants, animals, insects, and fungi all coexist.

They all depend on each other.

A species is a type of life form. Tigers, blue whales,

and willow trees are all types of species. There have

been millions of species on Earth throughout history.

They have lived over many hundreds of millions of

years. They flourish in different ways at different times.

Humans are just one

of millions of species

on Earth.

Siberian tiger

maple tree

A Whole Lotta Critters!

Scientists estimate there are more than

1,700,000 kinds of organisms on Earth!

Among them are more than 300,000

different kinds of plants, more than 60,000

kinds of animals, more than 1,000,000 kinds

of insects, and more than 50,000 kinds of

fungi, lichens, and similar organisms.

Mass Extinctions

Many big changes on Earth have caused a wide

variety of life-forms to die off. Scientists think there

have been at least five mass extinctions on Earth.

Why did they happen? Some have been caused by

a sudden worldwide catastrophe . For example, an

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