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What is the difference between the Sahara Desert and the Atacama Desert?
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∙ 11y ago
The Sahara Desert is a hot, sandy desert. Antarctica is a continent with a large desert covering much of it's surface. It is of course cold and much of it consists of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, although the dry valleys in the trans-antarctic mountains are not ice covered, and have sand dunes like more temperate deserts.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 12y agoThe differences between the Sahara and Antarctica are numerous, However the same can be said for similarites, The Sahara and Antarctica both fail to receive rainfall. The Sahara doesn't get rainfall because it is simply too hot, due to the shortage of water in The Sahara, clouds are not formed, so rain cannot fall. In Antarctica; the rain freezes almost instantly after it enters the atmosphere. Because of this there is no snow in Antarctica either, it is all just ice. If the whole of Antarctica melted, the world's oceans would rise by around 60-65 metres! Because The Sahara and Antarctica don't receive rainfall, they are both deserts.
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∙ 15y agoThe Sahara Desert is a hot sandy desert of about 9.65 million sq km. Antarctica is a cold icy desert of about 14 million sq km.
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∙ 11y agoThe Sahara is the largest desert and the atacama desert is the driest desert.
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∙ 9y agoThere is no difference. The Sahara is a desert.
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∙ 12y agoAntarctica is cold and the Sahara is hot
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Which is the coldest - the Sahara or the Gobi?
The Sahara Desert is hotter than the Atacama Desert, it's larger than the Atacama Desert and it has more life, but the Atacama Desert is much drier. The Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth, with an average of less than a millimetre of the rain.
Are there dust storms in the Atacama Desert?
Yes, there are occasional dust storms in the Atacama Desert.
Is Atacama Desert the hottest?
No, the Atacama is a cold desert. The hottest desert use to be the Sahara in Libya but that title has recently been awarded to Death Valley in the Mojave Desert of North America.
What is the difference between the Sahara and the sahel?
the sahara is a desert and a sahel is a strip of land that seperates the desert from the wetter areas
Which deserts are dryer than the Sahara Desert?
Both Antarctica and the Atacama are drier that the Sahara Desert. Neither of which receives any appreciable precipitation.
Which desert is located between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn?
The Gibson, Kalahari, Atacama and Namib deserts.
Is the sahara the driest desert?
The Atacama Desert (Chile) is the driest desert in the world and Sahara is the largest hot desert with a span of 9,000,000 square kilometres (3,500,000 sq. mi.).The Atacama Desert (Chile) is the driest desert in the world, according to NASA, National Geographic and many other publications.
What is the most well known desert?
GobiVictorianKalihariSaharaTaklamakan
Does the Sahara Desert have schools?
There are schools in the few cities and towns located in the Atacama Desert.
What deserts is in the US Atacama Mojave Sahara Gobi?
The Mojave Desert is in the United States.
What is the hottesst places in the world?
ATACAMA DESERT SAHARA DESERT (LIBYA) LUT DESERT Death Valley CaliforniaUSA, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
What is the huge desert in North Africa?
The Sahara Desert is the largest "hot desert" in the world and covers most of the continent of North Africa. However, the largest desert in the world is actually Antarctica.
