Soil
Landscape of a cold desert.
Soils in desert are extremely poor. Limited plants can grow in desert soils. But some deserts have different richnesses of soils. Like hot and cold deserts. Hot deserts are usually sand, rocks and gravel.
Soils in hot deserts
Soils in hot deserts lack texture like supplies of water. Colours of the soils are usually gray, brown and brick red. Since the soils lack of water limited plants can grow because plants need photosynthesis, which is sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. The plants can receive sunlight and carbon dioxide but they can't receive water because the annual amount of precipitation is severely low. When it does rain the powerful sunlight can dry the rain rapidly.
Soils in cold deserts
Soils in cold deserts are sandy, salty and rocky. The soil is usually gray and light brown. Plants are limited in cold deserts too because there is not as much sunlight and the temperature are not suitable for most plants. So they lack sunlight and warmth. In extremes the whole deserts and covered in snow, which is an extremely poor soil to have plants.
Soils in hot deserts
Soils in hot deserts lack texture like supplies of water. Colours of the soils are usually gray, brown and brick red. Since the soils lack of water limited plants can grow because plants need photosynthesis, which is sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. The plants can receive sunlight and carbon dioxide but they can't receive water because the annual amount of precipitation is severely low. When it does rain the powerful sunlight can dry the rain rapidly.
Soils in cold deserts
Soils in cold deserts are sandy, salty and rocky. The soil is usually gray and light brown. Plants are limited in cold deserts too because there is not as much sunlight and the temperature are not suitable for most plants. So they lack sunlight and warmth. In extremes the whole deserts and covered in snow, which is an extremely poor soil to have plants.