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.
Biome characteristics. 1  Tropical forests are found near the equator in Central and South America, parts of Africa and Asia. 2  Savannah or tropical grasslands are hot and dry, dominated by grass, scrub [scrub: Dense vegetation consisting mainly of small shrubs and bushes. 3  Desert is the driest and hottest of areas. 4  Mediterranean climates are not too ... The world's largest desert is the Sahara in North Africa. 2  Areas of scrub land that border the desert are called desert scrub. 3  Mediterranean climates are not too hot or cold. 4  They are found around the Mediterranean Sea, near Cape Town in South Africa and Melbourne in Australia.