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In video games using procedural world generation, the map seed is a (relatively) short number or text string which is used to procedurally create the game world ("map"). "). This means that while the seed-unique generated map may be many megabytes in size (often generated incrementally and virtually unlimited in potential size), it is possible to reset to the unmodified map, or the unmodified ...
More arid ecoregions lie to west and south – the Great Sandy-Tanami desert to the southwest, the Simpson Desert to the south, and the Eastern Australia mulga shrublands to the southeast. [ 2 ] The ecoregion includes three IBRA regions – Mitchell Grass Downs , Mount Isa Inlier , and Desert Uplands .
The Tonopah Desert is a small desert plains region of the Sonoran Desert, located west of Phoenix, Arizona. It is adjacent north of Interstate 10 and lies at the southwest intersection of the Hassayampa River with the Gila River. The Tonopah Desert is also just north of the Gila Bend Mountains massif which create the Gila Bend of the river.
The plains are drained in three directions: the eastern side by the Wallam, Nebine and Mungallala Creeks (tributaries of the Culgoa River), and the Warrego and Paroo rivers into the Murray-Darling basin; the southwest by the Bulloo River into wetlands near the Simpson Desert; and finally the northern side by the Barcoo River towards Lake Eyre.
In physical geography, a steppe (/ s t ɛ p /) is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without closed forests except near rivers and lakes. [1] Steppe biomes may include: the montane grasslands and shrublands biome; the tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome; the temperate grasslands, savannas, and ...
Red Desert rangeland in Wyoming.Water from melted snow pack can be seen on the ground. Such melting is the main source of surface water in Wyoming. Weeds are all that remains in Idaho after a failed restoration project following wildfire, and subsequent invasion by non-native species.
The Nama Karoo of Namibia has the world's richest desert fauna. [8] The Chihuahuan desert and Central Mexican matorral are the richest deserts in the Neotropics. [9] The Carnarvon xeric shrublands of Australia are a regional center for endemism. [1] The Sonoran and Baja deserts of Mexico are unusual desert communities dominated by giant ...
North Tibetan Plateau–Kunlun Mountains alpine desert: China: Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows: China, India, Pakistan: Ordos Plateau steppe: China: Pamir alpine desert and tundra: Afghanistan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan: Qilian Mountains subalpine meadows: China: Sayan alpine meadows and tundra: Mongolia, Russia: Southeast ...