What is The Mojave Desert?
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THE MOVAJE DESERT is one of the smallest deserts in the United States, being roughly around fifty thousand miles. Humans, now known as Native Americans, were have thought to existed in the Mojave up to ten thousand years ago. Native Americans continued to live in the Mojave Desert up until the 1600's when European explorers discovered North America, traveled inland, and wiped them out. Still after that, Native Americans existed until the United States' westward expansion, but not in nearly as high of numbers. In 1905, railroads leading to California were built, traveling through the Mojave. Today, many highways run through the Mojave Desert, including the all famous Route 66. Also, in the 1950's, after World War Two, the military base Groom Lake Test Facility, also known as Area 51, was established there.
In the Mojave Desert, there is a lab called the Free-Air Carbon Enrichment facility. At the Free-Air Carbon Enrichment facility, scientists study various shrubs and perennial grasses that grow in the Mojave. The biochemists study plant growth under the effects of CO2 enrichment, and how it affects them. Scientists that work at that lab, Billings and Schaeffer, said that their data indicated that under the effects of carbon dioxide enrichment, plants may grow better.
In fifty years, we predict that the Mojave will be the same way it is. Since there is no sign for any building or anything in or around the desert, there would be no need for new major roadways or other methods of transportation. Also, since the carbon dioxide level in the Mojave is not abnormally high, there would be no significant increase in plant life. Unless there was an enormous change of events throught nature, the Mojave Desert shows no signs of any significant changes.
In the Mojave Desert, there is a lab called the Free-Air Carbon Enrichment facility. At the Free-Air Carbon Enrichment facility, scientists study various shrubs and perennial grasses that grow in the Mojave. The biochemists study plant growth under the effects of CO2 enrichment, and how it affects them. Scientists that work at that lab, Billings and Schaeffer, said that their data indicated that under the effects of carbon dioxide enrichment, plants may grow better.
In fifty years, we predict that the Mojave will be the same way it is. Since there is no sign for any building or anything in or around the desert, there would be no need for new major roadways or other methods of transportation. Also, since the carbon dioxide level in the Mojave is not abnormally high, there would be no significant increase in plant life. Unless there was an enormous change of events throught nature, the Mojave Desert shows no signs of any significant changes.