Desert Desert Kalahari for Many Years, They Were Supported Many Plants and Animals
LEVELED BOOK • P Desert People A Reading A–Z Level P Leveled Book Word Count: 897 DesertDesert PeoplePeople
• W P• T Written by David Meissner
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Desert People • Level P 19 20 Photo Credits: Front cover: © Hemis/Alamy Images; back cover: © Ruth Fremson/AP Images; Glossary title page, page 17: © Terry Trewin/epa/Corbis; pages 3, 7 (background): © Robert Glusic/Photodisc/Getty Images; pages 4, 5: © iStockphoto.com/ Chee-Onn Leong; page 6 (background): © iStockphoto.com/Alexander Do you think you could grow adapt (v.) to adjust to new Desert Hafemann; page 7 (top): Francis Morgan/© Learning A–Z; page 8: © iStockphoto.com/Anton Foltin; pages 9, 11: © iStockphoto.com/James food like the Tohono O’odham? conditions (p. 5) Metcalf; page 10: © iStockphoto.com/Erik Bettini; page 12: © Jon Arnold Images/photolibrary; page 13: © iStockphoto.com/Maze; page 15: Try This © Photodisc; page 16 (main): © Antony Mcauley/Dreamstime.com; page 16 Australian the native people of (inset): © iStockphoto.com/Okan Metin; page 18: © iStockphoto.com/Joost van You probably could! Ask a teacher, parent, People Stuijters; page 19: © iStockphoto.com/Scott Hirko Aborigines (n.) Australia who lived or friend to help you. But be careful, you might plant a seed in their head, too! there before Europeans Pronunciation Guide came (p. 17) Grow Your Own Food Bedouin: (BED-oo-in) Atacama the high-desert region 1 Tohono O’odham: (toe-HOE-noh OH-eh-dom) Find out what kinds of fruits, vegetables, Desert (n.) in northern Chile and herbs grow in your area. (p. 18) 2 Decide what you want to grow, Bushmen (n.) one of the native and buy the seeds. peoples of southern 3 Choose a sunny spot with soft soil. Africa (p. 18) (You can also fill a pot with soil.) dung (n.) animal manure (also 4 Get help from someone who knows known as poop) how to grow plants (or read the (p. 15) instructions on the seed packet). nomads (n.) people who move from 5 Dig a shallow hole. place to place with no permanent home Written by David Meissner Desert People Level P Leveled Book 6 Place a seed in the hole Correlation (p. 17) © Learning A–Z and wait for the ISBN 1-59827- 987- 4 LEVEL P Written by David Meissner oases (n.) fertile places in the Fountas & Pinnell M seed to grow! All rights reserved. Reading Recovery 28 desert that have water DRA 28 www.readinga-z.com www.readinga-z.com (p. 13)
Desert People • Level P 19 20 More Desert People Atacama Indians in South America lived in the dry Atacama Desert. They raised The Tohono O’odham and the Bedouin guinea pigs and llamas. They also Table of Contents are just two of the world’s desert planted crops. peoples. There have been many more. What Is a Desert?...... 4
Australian Aborigines hunted with Desert Living...... 5 spears and throwing sticks. Women The Tohono O’odham...... 7 gathered food. The Aborigines wore very little clothing. They slept by the The Bedouin...... 12 warm campfire. More Desert People...... 17
Glossary...... 20 Sunrise in the desert What Is a Desert? Kalahari Bushmen in southern Africa carry small bows. Would you know a desert if you Bushmen lived in the Kalahari Desert. saw one? Would it have camels or Women gathered plants and roots. rattlesnakes? Would it have sand Men hunted with bows and arrows. or rocks?
For thousands of years, people have Earth has many different kinds of Aboriginal kids at a playground near Alice Springs, Australia found food, water, shelter, and more in deserts, but all deserts are dry. They Nomads traveled the cold and windy the desert. Desert people have learned usually get less than 25.4 centimeters Gobi Desert. They raised sheep, goats, how to live in these beautiful and (10 in) of rain a year. Some deserts are and cattle. They lived in round tents. challenging lands. very cold, but most are sunny and hot.
Desert People • Level P 17 18 Desert People • Level P 3 4 More Desert People Atacama Indians in South America lived in the dry Atacama Desert. They raised The Tohono O’odham and the Bedouin Table of Contents guinea pigs and llamas. They also are just two of the world’s desert planted crops. What Is a Desert?...... 4 peoples. There have been many more.
Desert Living...... 5 Australian Aborigines hunted with The Tohono O’odham...... 7 spears and throwing sticks. Women gathered food. The Aborigines wore The Bedouin...... 12 very little clothing. They slept by the More Desert People...... 17 warm campfire.
Glossary...... 20 Sunrise in the desert What Is a Desert? Would you know a desert if you Kalahari Bushmen in southern Africa carry small bows. saw one? Would it have camels or Bushmen lived in the Kalahari Desert. rattlesnakes? Would it have sand Women gathered plants and roots. or rocks? Men hunted with bows and arrows.
Earth has many different kinds of For thousands of years, people have deserts, but all deserts are dry. They Aboriginal kids at a playground near Alice Springs, Australia found food, water, shelter, and more in usually get less than 25.4 centimeters Nomads traveled the cold and windy the desert. Desert people have learned (10 in) of rain a year. Some deserts are Gobi Desert. They raised sheep, goats, how to live in these beautiful and very cold, but most are sunny and hot. and cattle. They lived in round tents. challenging lands.
Desert People • Level P 3 4 Desert People • Level P 17 18 DESERTPEOPLE OF EXAMPLE TERRAIN SIZE CONTINENT C
Camping with Camels Fruits and Vegetables LIMATE
Arabian camels gave the Bedouin The Bedouin did different.all are they that Notice deserts. four these Compare shelter, clothing, food, and rides. not grow many crops. But in late The Bedouin wove camel hair into tents summer, they 310,100 (sq km) 9,064,960 (sq km) 1,036,000 (sq km) 139,860 (sq km) (sq 139,860 km) (sq 1,036,000 km) (sq 9,064,960 km) (sq 310,100 and clothing. They also drank camel Mongols Bedouin TohonoO’odham mountains basins, Flat Africa North America desert the for rainfall Good
camped out near Atacama Gobi Sahara Sonoran milk and ate camel meat. They even TableWorldComparison Deserts oases with date Finding shade in the desert can be challenging. burned camel dung for campfires! palms. Bedouins Desert Living ate some dates Camels can go a long time without How do people stay alive in such hot, water. Arabian camels can walk fresh and dried dunes sand mountains, plains, Gravel dry very Veryand hot People living around the dry places? Where do they find food 50 kilometers (30 mi) in a day. They can others to save Sahara Desert have been eating dates for at least and water? How do they build their for later. 6,000 years. carry up to 270 kilograms (600 lbs) on homes? their backs. Meat For thousands of years, desert people
The Bedouin hunted desert animals for grasslands Stony,soil, sandy Asia windy and Cold have used what they found in their local food. Sometimes trained dogs rode with areas to get food, water, and shelter. the Bedouin to track animals. Can you Each desert is different, and each desert imagine a dog riding a camel? has its own solutions. Drinking Water basins, lava basins, salt Sand, South America world the in desert Driest In this book, you will learn about two Indians Atacama The Bedouin knew where to find oases. Arabian camels have desert peoples: the Tohono O’odham one hump. They dug wells to pull water from the and the Bedouin. Both of these groups ground. They carried the water in bags have found ways to adapt and live made of camel skin. successfully in their desert homelands.
Desert People • Level P 15 16 Desert People • Level P 5 6 DESERTPEOPLE OF EXAMPLE TERRAIN SIZE CONTINENT C
LIMATE Camping with Camels Fruits and Vegetables
Compare these four deserts. Notice that they are all different.all are they that Notice deserts. four these Compare Arabian camels gave the Bedouin The Bedouin did shelter, clothing, food, and rides. not grow many crops. But in late The Bedouin wove camel hair into tents summer, they 310,100 (sq km) 9,064,960 (sq km) 1,036,000 (sq km) 139,860 (sq km) (sq 139,860 km) (sq 1,036,000 km) (sq 9,064,960 km) (sq 310,100 oooOohmBdunMongols Bedouin TohonoO’odham mountains basins, Flat Africa North America desert the for rainfall Good and clothing. They also drank camel
ooa aaaGb Atacama Gobi Sahara Sonoran camped out near World Deserts Comparison TableWorldComparison Deserts milk and ate camel meat. They even Finding shade in the desert can be challenging. oases with date burned camel dung for campfires! Desert Living palms. Bedouins ate some dates How do people stay alive in such hot, Camels can go a long time without
dunes sand mountains, plains, Gravel dry very Veryand hot water. Arabian camels can walk fresh and dried dry places? Where do they find food People living around the 50 kilometers (30 mi) in a day. They can others to save Sahara Desert have been and water? How do they build their eating dates for at least for later. 6,000 years. homes? carry up to 270 kilograms (600 lbs) on their backs. Meat For thousands of years, desert people
grasslands Stony,soil, sandy Asia windy and Cold The Bedouin hunted desert animals for have used what they found in their local food. Sometimes trained dogs rode with areas to get food, water, and shelter. the Bedouin to track animals. Can you Each desert is different, and each desert imagine a dog riding a camel? has its own solutions. Drinking Water basins, lava basins, salt Sand, South America world the in desert Driest In this book, you will learn about two Indians Atacama The Bedouin knew where to find oases. desert peoples: the Tohono O’odham Arabian camels have one hump. They dug wells to pull water from the and the Bedouin. Both of these groups ground. They carried the water in bags have found ways to adapt and live made of camel skin. successfully in their desert homelands.
Desert People • Level P 5 6 Desert People • Level P 15 16 Deserts cover roughly one-fifth of the Earth’s surface. Can you find the Sonoran Desert Sonoran the find you Can surface. Earth’s the of one-fifth roughly cover Deserts The Tohono O’odham The Sonoran Market The Sonoran Desert can be a difficult Tohono O’odham Sonoran Desert Sonoran place to live. Months may pass without means “desert rain. Summer days can reach 49º Celsius
Atacama Desert Atacama people.” The (120ºF). Winter nights can be freezing Tohono O’odham cold. are Native Americans who But, for a desert, the Sonoran is full of still live in the life. Historically, the Tohono O’odham Sonoran Desert. lived where 30.5 centimeters (12 in) An oasis in the Sahara Desert of rain fell each year. The rainfall Long ago, the The Sahara Desert is the largest desert Desert Kalahari For many years, they were supported many plants and animals. Sahara Desert Sahara O’odham slept in the world: 9 million square kilometers called the Papago. Today, Shady trees, cacti, and flowers all grew in round homes Tohono O’odham is the (3.5 million sq mi). In some parts, it rains official name of the tribe. there. Many insects, birds, rabbits, and made of dried mud, less than 25 millimeters (1 in) per year! other animals lived there, too. branches, and grass. There was one Arabian Desert Arabian Less rain falls in the Sahara than in main room with a fire pit. Families slept the Sonoran Desert. Fewer plants and on grass mats. Fires gave them light and Australian Desert Australian animals live there. The Bedouin had to Sahara The ? heat during cold winter nights. Gobi Desert Gobi travel far in search of food and water. Word Wise
The Sahara is more than sand. It also Desert Desert: a dry, barren area of land, especially one includes mountains, valleys, and oases. covered with sand, that is … desolate, waterless, and ? An oasis is a place in a desert where without vegetation.* *This is the official New Oxford American Dictionary definition of desert. water creates a rich green area. The Sonoran Desert is home to many kinds of life.
Desert People • Level P 13 14 Desert People • Level P 7 8 Deserts cover roughly one-fifth of the Earth’s surface. Can you find the Sonoran Desert Sonoran the find you Can surface. Earth’s the of one-fifth roughly cover Deserts The Tohono O’odham The Sonoran Market The Sonoran Desert can be a difficult Tohono O’odham place to live. Months may pass without Desert Sonoran means “desert rain. Summer days can reach 49º Celsius
people.” The Desert Atacama (120ºF). Winter nights can be freezing Tohono O’odham cold. are Native Americans who But, for a desert, the Sonoran is full of still live in the life. Historically, the Tohono O’odham Sonoran Desert. lived where 30.5 centimeters (12 in) An oasis in the Sahara Desert of rain fell each year. The rainfall Long ago, the For many years, they were supported many plants and animals. The Sahara Desert is the largest desert Desert Kalahari O’odham slept Desert Sahara called the Papago. Today, Shady trees, cacti, and flowers all grew in the world: 9 million square kilometers in round homes Tohono O’odham is the official name of the tribe. there. Many insects, birds, rabbits, and (3.5 million sq mi). In some parts, it rains made of dried mud, other animals lived there, too. less than 25 millimeters (1 in) per year! branches, and grass. There was one Arabian Desert Arabian main room with a fire pit. Families slept Less rain falls in the Sahara than in on grass mats. Fires gave them light and the Sonoran Desert. Fewer plants and Australian Desert Australian heat during cold winter nights. animals live there. The Bedouin had to Sahara The ? Gobi Desert Gobi travel far in search of food and water. Word Wise
Desert: a dry, barren area of land, especially one The Sahara is more than sand. It also Desert covered with sand, that is … desolate, waterless, and includes mountains, valleys, and oases. ? without vegetation.* An oasis is a place in a desert where *This is the official New Oxford American Dictionary definition of desert. The Sonoran Desert is home to many kinds of life. water creates a rich green area.
Desert People • Level P 7 8 Desert People • Level P 13 14 Desert Foods Meat The Tohono The Tohono O’odham hunted O’odham also rattlesnakes, rabbits, and birds in the gathered wild desert. In the mountains, they killed desert foods like deer, mountain sheep, and sometimes chile peppers, even bears. onions, beans, Prickly pear cactus fruits and cactus fruits. In the mountains, Bedouin tents are low to the ground so the wind will not blow they found acorns, roots, and pine nuts. them over. The desert is filled with resources, if you know where to look. O’odham men even made four-day trips The Bedouin to the ocean to get salt! A Different Kind of Shopping Can you imagine moving to a new The desert was the Tohono O’odham The O’odham traded salt and cactus place every week? Another desert market. When they needed vegetables, syrup with other native peoples for people, known as the Bedouin, moved they planted seeds. When they needed corn, beans, and wheat. This food helped from place to place on camels in search water, they went to a spring. When they the O’odham during long periods of food and water. Because they moved needed meat, they hunted. without rain. so often, the Bedouin owned very few Fruits and Vegetables items. Bedouin means “people of Drinking Water In the early summer, O’odham people the desert.” Some O’odham villages were near planted seeds. In the late summer, the springs and streams. Other villages dug The Bedouin lived in tents. In a few rains flooded the fields. The O’odham wells in the ground. But many people hours, they could pack up and move. grew corn, beans, and other vegetables. lived far away from water. Young girls Today, many Bedouins still travel the In the winter, they grew wheat, peas, hiked into mountain canyons to get water. Syrian, Arabian, and Sahara deserts. and fruits. A desert jackrabbit
Desert People • Level P 11 12 Desert People • Level P 9 10 Meat Desert Foods The Tohono O’odham hunted The Tohono rattlesnakes, rabbits, and birds in the O’odham also desert. In the mountains, they killed gathered wild deer, mountain sheep, and sometimes desert foods like even bears. chile peppers, onions, beans, Prickly pear cactus fruits and cactus fruits. In the mountains, Bedouin tents are low to the ground so the wind will not blow they found acorns, roots, and pine nuts. them over. The desert is filled with resources, if you know where to look. O’odham men even made four-day trips The Bedouin A Different Kind of Shopping to the ocean to get salt! The desert was the Tohono O’odham Can you imagine moving to a new market. When they needed vegetables, The O’odham traded salt and cactus place every week? Another desert they planted seeds. When they needed syrup with other native peoples for people, known as the Bedouin, moved water, they went to a spring. When they corn, beans, and wheat. This food helped from place to place on camels in search needed meat, they hunted. the O’odham during long periods of food and water. Because they moved without rain. so often, the Bedouin owned very few Fruits and Vegetables items. Bedouin means “people of In the early summer, O’odham people Drinking Water the desert.” planted seeds. In the late summer, the Some O’odham villages were near rains flooded the fields. The O’odham springs and streams. Other villages dug The Bedouin lived in tents. In a few grew corn, beans, and other vegetables. wells in the ground. But many people hours, they could pack up and move. In the winter, they grew wheat, peas, lived far away from water. Young girls Today, many Bedouins still travel the hiked into mountain canyons to get water. and fruits. A desert jackrabbit Syrian, Arabian, and Sahara deserts.
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