Climate change affects animals in the desert by sometimes confusing them on knowing what temperature to predict next. Or by causing them to have to adapt to their surrounding by look and skill.
Climate change is starting to transform the deserts of the Southwest, triggering declines in Joshua trees in some areas, pushing populations of birds to higher elevations, and posing new threats for animals such as desert tortoises
C) They believed Earth to be much younger than current estimates.
Explanation:
The proponents of the 18 and the 17th centuries believed that the earth was shaped by a strong and a violent forces such as the erosion that created the earth's geologic features and had a recent origin.