Which are characteristics of a desert ecosystem? dry and hot dry and cold many plants grow here receives less than ten inches (twenty-five cm) of rain per year covers one-half of the earth

answer; (wisconsin);

explanation: the badger state. this nickname originally referred to the lead miners, of the 1830s, who worked at the galena lead mines in illinois. these mines were in northwestern illinois close to the borders of wisconsin and iowa. the wisconsin miners lived, not in houses, but in temporary caves cut into the hillsides.

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