North America has four major deserts: Great Basin, Mohave, Chihuahuan and Sonoran. All but the Sonoran Desert have cold winters. Freezing temperatures are even more limiting to plant life than is aridity, so colder deserts are poorer in both species and life forms, especially succulents.
The four North American deserts
The Great Basin Desert (plate 10) is both the highest-elevation and northernmost of the four and has very cold winters. The seasonal distribution of precipitation varies with latitude, but temperatures limit the growing season to the summer. Vegetation is dominated by a few species of low, small-leafed shrubs; there are almost no trees or succulents and not many annuals. The indicator plant (the most common or conspicuous one used to identify an area) is big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata), which often grows in nearly pure stands over huge vistas. (Such cold shrub/deserts in the "Old World" are called steppes.)
The Mohave Desert (plate 11) is characterized largely by its winter rainy season. Hard freezes are common but not as severe as in the Great Basin Desert. The perennial vegetation is composed mostly of low shrubs; annuals carpet the ground in wet years. There are many species of these two life forms, but few succulents and trees grow there. The only common tree species is the characteristic joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia), an arborescent (treelike) yucca that forms extensive woodlands above 3000 feet (900 m) elevation.
Though the Chihuahuan Desert (plate 12) is the southernmost, it lies at a fairly high elevation and is not protected by any barrier from arctic air masses, so hard winter freezes are common. Its vegetation consists of many species of low shrubs, leaf succulents, and small cacti. Trees are rare. Rainfall is predominantly in the summer, but in the northern end there is occasionally enough winter rain to support massive blooms of spring annuals. The Chihuahuan Desert is unexpectedly rich in species despite the winter cold.
They wanted the Constitution to be a flexible document, so that it could adapt to the centuries.
1. Yes i do, cause the government can easily power over the people but as soons as they do that the people will then take back the government there fore the constitution is not used by the government to control us cause if they did we could easily over turn them
2. there take of the constitution under my understanding is that if the government does something that makes the people unhappy they can look back at the constitution and say you are braking this law and now you are being over turned.
3.the social contract says that it obtains to everyone not just the people that arent in some type of government or the richest person ever it obtains to everyone. so his statment reflect cause hes saying that if the government tries to say something to use we can something back and say the constitution says we are allowed to do that or we arent. for example the right to carry a weapon we are but its not because of we like to hunt or go target shooting no its because if the government turns on us we can protect our selfs.
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"<span> The American colonists believed that all men were created equal. They also believed that they had certain unalienable (guaranteed) rights that had been violated. These were </span>life<span>, liberty and the </span>pursuit of happiness<span>."</span>
The Ordinance of 1785 put the 1784 resolution in operation by providing a mechanism for selling and settling the land, while the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 addressed political needs. The 1785 ordinance laid the foundations of land policy until passage of the Homestead Act in 1862.
so the answer is b
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