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.
In this section, you will learn about two interesting biomes, deserts and grasslands. Deserts Desert regions A desert is a climate region that av erages less than 35 centimeters of rainfall per year. Most deserts are found between the latitudes of 30Â° N and 30Â° S. Because of the lack of cloud cover, deserts