an act or instance of shaping up. a former method of hiring longshoremen in which the applicants appeared daily at the docks and a union hiring boss chose those who would be given work.
The desert biome is an ecosystem that forms due to the low level of rainfall it receives each year. Deserts cover about 20% of the Earth.There are four major types of desert in this biome-hot and dry, semiarid, coastal, and cold.They are all able to inhabit plant and animal life that are able to survive there.ecause there is hardly any standing water in the desert biome, animals either store water in their bodies or get their water needs met by the foods they eat. Dust storms occur when the wind picks up dust from the surface. These storms can be up to 1 mile high and travel over a hundred miles.
See where deserts are found on this biomes map. Deserts have extreme temperatures. During the day the temperature may reach 50Â°C, when at night it may fall to below 0Â°C. Deserts have less than 250 mm of rainfall per year. The rain can be unreliable. Most deserts are found between 20Â° and 35Â° north and south of the equator.