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.
A desert is a landscape or region that receives very little precipitation. Deserts can be defined as areas that receive an average annual precipitation of less than 250 mm (10 in), or as areas in which more water is lost than falls as precipitation.In the Koppen climate classification system, deserts are classed as BWh (hot desert) or BWk (temperate desert).he desert landforms of the Sahara are shaped by wind or by occasional rains and include sand dunes and dune fields or sand seas (erg), stone plateaus (hamada), gravel plains (reg), dry valleys, and salt flats (shatt or chott).