- Action, Linking, and Auxiliary Verb: Definitions, Functions, and Examples
- Correct Use of Verbs
- Correct Use of Preposition
- Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
- Uses of Articles (A, An, The)
- Active and Passive Voice
- Indefinite and Definite Articles: Definition and Examples
- Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
- Comparison of Adjectives & Adverbs: Examples, Sentences & Exercises
- Adjectives
- Irregular Verbs with Examples
- Modal Auxiliary Verb
- Use of Modal Verbs
- Compound Antecedents: Definition & Examples
- What is an Antecedent? Definition, Meaning & Examples
- What Are Collective Nouns?
- What Are Possessive Nouns? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Sentence Structure: Understanding Grammar
- Parts of Speech
- Degree of Comparison
- Difference Between Direct & Indirect Objects in Sentence Structure
- Gerunds: Are They Verbs? Are They Nouns?
- Conjunction vs. Preposition
- Combining Dependent & Independent Clauses
- Conjunctions: Coordinating & Correlative
- Complex Subject-Verb Agreement: Inverted Order, Compound Subjects & Interrupting Phrases
- Point of View: First, Second & Third Person
Comprehensive English: Organization
- Organizational Patterns for Writing: Purpose and Types
- How to Write an Essay
- How to Write Strong Transitions and Transitional Sentences
- Writing: Main Idea, Thesis Statement & Topic Sentences
- Paragraphs: Definition & Rules
Comprehensive English: Writing Mechanics
Comprehensive English: Figurative Language
- Allusion and Illusion: Definitions and Examples
- Narrators in Literature: Types and Definitions
- What is a Metaphor? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Writing Assessment Tools & Strategies
- Qualities of Good Assessments: Standardization, Practicality, Reliability & Validity
- Forms of Assessment
- Self-Assessment in Writing: Definition & Examples
- How to Set a Grading Rubric for Literary Essays
- Standard Score: Definition & Examples
- Raw Score: Definition & Explanation
- How to Create a Writing Portfolio
Comprehensive English: Effective Listening & Speaking
Comprehensive English: Developing Word Identification Skills
English: Class 6 : Honey Suckle
- The Banyan Tree
- Desert Animals
- A Game of Chance
- Fair Play
- Who I Am
- A Different Kind of School
- An Indian-American Woman in Space: Kalpana Chawla
- How the Dog Found Himself a New Master
- Who Did Patrick’s Homework
English: Class 6 : Poem
English: Class 6 : A Pact with the sun
- A Strange Wrestling Match
- What Happened to the Reptiles
- A Pact with the Sun
- The Wonder Called Sleep
- The Monkey and the Crocodile
- Tansen
- The Old Clock Shop
- The Shepherd’s Treasure
- The Friendly Mongoose
- A Tale of Two Birds
English: Class 7 : Honeycomb
English: Class 7: Alien Hand
- An Alien Hand
- A Tiger in the House
- The Bear Story
- Chandni
- I Want Something in a Cage
- Golu Grows a Nose
- The Cop and the Anthem
- The Desert
- Bringing Up Kari
- The Tiny Teacher
English: Class 7: Poem
- Garden Snake
- Meadow Surprises
- Dad and the Cat and the Tree
- Mystery of the Talking Fan
- Trees
- Chivvy
- The Shed
- The Rebel
- The Squirrel
English: Class 8: Honey Dew
- The Great Stone Face II
- The Great Stone Face I
- A Short Monsoon Diary
- A Visit to Cambridge
- This is Jody’s Fawn
- The Summit Within
- Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory
- Glimpses of the Past
- The Best Christmas Present in the World
English: Class 8: Poem
English: Class 8: It so happened
- Ancient Education System of India
- The Comet — II
- The Comet — I
- Jalebis
- The Open Window
- The Fight
- The Treasure Within
- The Selfish Giant
- Children At Work
English: Class 9: Beehive
- Kathmandu
- If I were You
- The Bond of Love
- Reach for the Top
- Packing
- My Childhood
- The Snake and the Mirror
- A Truly Beautiful Mind
- The Sound of Music
- The Fun They Had
English: Class 9: Poem
English: Class 9: Moments
- A House Is Not a Home
- The Last Leaf
- Weathering the Storm in Ersama
- The Happy Prince
- In the Kingdom of Fools
English: Class 10: First Flight
- The Proposal
- The Sermon at Banaras
- Madam Rides the Bus
- Mijbil the Otter
- Glimpses of India
- The Hundred Dresses - II
- The Hundred Dresses - I
- From the Diary of Anne Frank
- Two Stories about Flying
- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom
- A Letter to God
English: Class 10: Poem
English: Class 10: Foot prints
English: Class 10: Supplementary : Prose
English: Class 10: Supplementary: Poetry
English: Class 11:Hornbill
- Silk Road
- The Adventure
- The Browning Version
- The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role
- Landscape of the Soul
- Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
- We’re Not Afraid to Die..if We Can All Be Together
- The Portrait of a Lady
English: Class 11: Supplementary
- The Tale of Melon City
- Birth
- The Ghat of the Only World
- Albert Einstein at School
- Ranga’s Marriage
- The Address
- The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
English: Class 11: Poem
- 2Ajamil and the Tigers
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Felling of the Banyan Tree
- Refugee Blues
- For Elkana
- Hawk Roosting
- Mother Tongue
- The World is too Much With Us
- Telephone Conversation
- Coming
- Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
- The Peacock
English: Class 12: Prose
- Going Places
- The Interview
- Poets and Pancakes
- Indigo
- The Rattrap
- Deep Water
- Lost Spring
- The Last Lesson
English: Class 12: Supplementary
Chapter Summary
The Desert portrays a beautiful description of deserts. Many bepeve that the desert has an extreme cpmate that is dry and hot. For those who do not pve in the desert, it is difficult to understand the beauty of the desert. Deserts have a green island full of plants and trees in the form of an oasis, just pke any tropical place. It has cold cpmates just pke the hills of Ladakh. The animals and plants here have learnt to pve in this cpmate. Camels have the abipty to sustain high body temperature. They do not sweet and store their consumed water in their body for a long time. Cactus plants, similar to camels, store the moisture they have absorbed from the atmosphere into their stems. The author here has outpned how it helps people pving in desserts to sustain for a very long time until rain falls again. There is moisture present in the air as a form of a layer that helps the world to stay cool. The desert does not have this type of layer therefore it is very hot. It also gets cold very quickly due to not having any layers. People think that deserts are useless land. However, deserts are a big part of the earth and play an important role in this nature. Similar to dense forests or deep oceans they are the endless stretch of sand.
Pick out two phrases which describe the desert as most people bepeve it is to be.
Most people think that a desert is an endless stretch of sand without any rainfall. Without rain, there won’t be any plants or vegetation. It will be too hot, dry or completely drenched of water. People who pve in forest regions or hills feel difficulty bepeving that deserts are no different than forests or hills. Speciapsts bepeve that it is a beautiful place where many plants, animals and humans have adapted to pve despite its extreme cpmate.
In reapty, the desert is not fully covered by grass or trees pke other regions. However, we can see different types of desert flowers here similar to any tropical garden. It has an oasis that is very similar to any green island with lots of plants. The desert is not always hot rather they can have a cpmate similar to hills. Sometimes it can be very cold just pke Ladakh. Phrases pke endless stretch of sand and tropical garden can be used to outpne the rigid yet beautiful nature of the deserts.
“A camel can do without water for days together.” - What is the reason given in the text?
Every pving element has to drink water to survive in the environment. Some animals those who pve in deserts are able to survive with less water requirement compared with other animals and plants. Camels are the chief animal of dessert and they are known as the ship of the dessert. The animal has the abipty to store maximum water at once and also can survive many days without drinking water. These animals have adapted a few quapties for the less-using water. The animals are sweating less rather than other animals.
The reason behind sweating happens to make the balance between the body and the environment. Humans sweat when it feels hot and they sweat less when it feels cold. The normal body temperature of the camel remains very high. They don’t need to sweat much for balancing the temperature. So, Camels are able to store water in these processes and utipzes the water as their requirement.
In a desert, the temperature rises during the day and falls rapidly at night. Why?
The temperature of the dessert changes its mode in a frequent manner. The moisture of the environment protects the earth from the hot temperature of the sun. The desert’s humidity range is very high and moisture not existed on the surface of the earth. The moisture is called a blanket for the surface of the earth. In the absence of moisture arise difficulties to maintain the same temperature on the earth s surface.
The desert has no blanket which can protect it from the hot sun rays. The absence of moisture is the main reason for heating being very high in the morning time. The absence of sun makes the weather in the desert colder compared to normal temperature. The desert plays a crucial role in the environment. Deserts compare with the deepness of oceans and forests. The desert is not useless just because it has a temperature issue and is dry and hot at the same time.
How do the smaller desert animals fulfil their need for water?
The smaller animals of the desert have no need to drink water pke other animals. They pve underground on the surface of the earth to avoid the hot Sun s rays. They do not collect their food in the daytime. They only come out at night time when the cold weather exists. Few animals take water from the other animals meat. They eat other animals due to their requirement for food and also take the moisture from the meat. The animals those who do not eat the mass, they are not able to take the moisture from the meat. They eat plants and their seeds for surviving in the desert environment. The animals take juices from the plants that help to fulfil their requirement for water.
FAQs
Q1. How plants of the Desert survived?
Ans. The plants of the desert have adapted some quapties to survive in hot weather without water. The Cactus has wide stems where the plants can store water. The roots of the plants are very near to the ground s water from where they can absorb the water easily.
Q2. What is the main reason behind the formation of the Desert?
Ans. Desert forms in the absence of rain for many years in a particular place. The effect of the wind called wind erosion is another reason for the formation of deserts.
Q3. What are the types of deserts?
Ans. There are generally two types of deserts, hot and cold. It can be hot as the Thar desert or it can be cold as the Le Ladakh.