T e snow leopard’s thick, smoky gray fur


covers its thin body. It stands on thick legs with large paws and thick, sharp claws. T e snow leopard makes a sound at you.


Chuff , chuff , chuff . It looks hungry. Maybe now is not the best time to get too close. It’s probably time to move on. So now you’ve traveled the globe and seen


some of the world’s most amazing deserts. In each, you’ve seen a diff erent climate. Deserts can be hot and sandy. Yet they can also be cold and snowy, even windy and rocky. All deserts are dry, yet none of them are empty. Instead, they are full of life.


WORDWISE


climate: the usual weather that occurs in a place, including average temperature, wind, and rain


desert: a place that gets less than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of rain or snow a year


desertifi cation: the change from grassland to desert


evaporate: to turn from liquid into vapor oasis: a green, fertile area surrounded by desert


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