How To Use Chihuahuan Desert In A Sentence
- Located at the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert, the White Sands National Monument is the largest gypsum dune field in the world.
- Up to 150 years ago, the North Chihuahuan Desert was completely covered in grassland. Archive 2008-03-01
- The turkey vulture is not the only opportunist circling in the roasting sun of the Chihuahuan desert.
- Conservation efforts in the Chihuahuan Desert are complicated by the fact that the ecoregion extends across an international border and numerous state boundaries, both in Mexico and the United States.
- Two features make the Chihuahuan Desert region unique: the vast temperate grasslands that skirt the mountain flanks at mid-elevation and the diversity of yuccas and agaves.
- Mean annual temperature is 20 • 8°C with a seasonal variation of 16 • 2°C, and a mean daily range of 20°C. Vegetation consists of xerophytic scrub or Chihuahuan Desert scrub.
- Overgrazing, water diversion, aquifer ‘mining’ (pumping at an unsustainable rate), and overcollecting of native plants and animals are considered the greatest threats to biodiversity in the Chihuahuan Desert ecoregion.
- Up to 99 percent of the water in the perennial rivers of the Chihuahuan Desert is diverted to municipal water supplies or to irrigate fields.
- The sheer beauty of the Chihuahuan Desert and the power of the river work their magicuntil the raft is lost in the rapids and a young college student falls overboard, resulting in an even more grisly discovery. Borderline by Nevada Barr: Book summary
- Its highest peak scrapes 8,749 feet into the Chihuahuan Desert sky and snags 21 inches of rain a year, enough to nourish these unlikely forests of firs and hardwoods.
