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A desert is any area that is barren, desolate, dry and lacks vegetation. Most people don't realize that the Antarctic is considered a desert as it meets all of these specifications. When a wet, fertile area within a desert exists, it is referred to as an oasis.
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What are the physical characteristics of oasis?
The physical characteristics of an oasis is a wet, fertile area of land in a desert where a natural spring or well provides water. Also an oasis is an isolated area of vegetation in a desert that grows ferns, shrubs, and trees most likely palm trees that is in a desert surrounded by a dry, sandy, and hot area climate.
Is water readily available in the rainforest?
haha you guys are funny how can a RAIN forest have a desert and be water by? a rain desert can have water because its a wet area but a desert can't because its not a wet area so it's dry all over :D
What is the wet place in the middle of a desert called?
This is known as an oasis - one oasis or several oases.
What borderd the wet fertile plains in canaan?
The wet fertile plains in Canaan were bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the west and the Jordan River to the east.
What is a wet desert?
An oxymoron! Except after rains, the desert is dry. That is why it is a desert.
What is a wet area such as a swamp or a marsh called?
A bog. a bog
What are some physical characteristics of the Sahel in Africa?
The physical characteristics of an oasis is a wet, fertile area of land in a desert where a natural spring or well provides water. Also an oasis is an isolated area of vegetation in a desert that grows ferns, shrubs, and trees most likely palm trees that is in a desert surrounded by a dry, sandy, and hot area climate.
What region is too wet to be a desert and too dry to be a forest?
The savanna is too wet to be a desert and too dry to be a forest.
Is the Thar Desert a dry desert?
Of course it is a dry desert. There is no such thing as a wet desert. A desert is defined by its lack of rainfall.
Does chicken eggs remain fertile if got wet?
yes
Is a desert a low wet land?
no
Wet is to dry as ocean is to?
desert
