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What is the difference between a tropical and temperate desert?
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A temperate desert is farther from the equator but has hotter days and colder nights.
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What is the weathering difference between the desert and a humid tropical region?
a desert is a dry landscape with no water in the air or in a basin. a humid tropical region has high levels of mouisture in the air and there is rivers and lakes nearby, also affecting the humidity. humidity comes from evaporated mouisture, which the desert has none of.
What is the difference between desert and wilderness?
The desert is a form of wilderness.
In what way is the desert different from the steppe climate?
Temperate deserts of continental regions have low rainfall and strong temperature contrasts between summer and winter. Subtropical deserts usually have a very hot summer but a mild winter. Temperate deserts may be quite hot in summer, also, but have winters that can be bitterly cold.
What is the natural environment that animals or plants can live?
Define artificial environment? there are two types of environment Urban and rural. social personal natural there are all types or natral environment unban energy pollution and transport
What is the difference between a desert and a coast?
Location.
Is the Sonoran Desert tropical or temperate?
The Sonoran Desert is tropical.
How do the climates of a tropical desert and a temperate desert differ?
Tropical deserts usually have a mild winter climate with few cold days or nights. Temperate deserts can be quite hot in the summer but usually have a cold winter.
What are the worlds 6 biomes?
Temperate Deciduous Forest Grassland Tundra Taiga Desert Savanna Tropical Rainforest This is a great website if you need to know about each of the biomes: http://www.deyabowersbiomes.zoomshare.com/
What are the different types of climates?
There are a variety of different types of climate. These include the tropical zone, polar zone, mountain zone, temperate zone, and desert zone.
What are the terrestrial biomes?
There are seven major types of terrestrial biomes in the world. They are as follows, grassland, desert, taiga, tundra, polar ice, tropical rainforest, and temperate deciduous forest.
What is the different between hot desert and temperate desert?
A temperate desert may be as hot as a hot desert in the summer but has a much colder winter.
Is Western Australia tropical?
No. Most of Western Australia is temperate (in the south), desert (in the east) and sub-tropical (in the far north).
What are the six bioms?
Taiga, tundra, desert, grasslands tropical forest, and temperate forest
What is the climate of Persia?
There are many climates, desert, sub tropical, mediterranean, arid, temperate.
What are six biomes?
Taiga, tundra, desert, grasslands tropical forest, and temperate forest
What is the main difference between hot and cold desert besides temperate?
the main difference between a hot and cold desert is the animals
Is the desert biome found in a polar tropical or temperate zone?
Tropical because it cant be cold that's why its the desrt The above answer previously posted by someone is completely senseless. The definition of a desert is an area which has a higher rate of evaporation than precipitation. The polar ice-caps are considered a desert just like the Sahara desert. To answer the question above, there is no such thing as a polar tropical climate region and the desert biome can be found anywhere that matches its definition. More specifically, just a desert can be classified further into categories like polar desert, temperate desert, and tropical desert.
