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What is the difference between the antarctica desert and the coastal desert?
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What is the difference between desert and coastal plain?
Desert has no significant vegetation. Coastal plain usually has lots of vegetation.
Can you list two desert areas in Antarctica?
With the exception of some coastal regions, all of the continent of Antarctica is a desert.
What desert is known as a cold desert?
Examples of cold winter deserts:AntarcticaGobi DesertNamib Desert (some classify as a cool coastal desert)Atacama Desert (some classify as a cool coastal desert)Taklamakan DesertGreat Basin DesertColorado Plateau DesertPatagonian DesertMonte DesertSechura Desert (some classify as a cool coastal desert)Karakum Desert
Where is the location of the largest cool coastal desert on earth?
The Atacama Desert is the largest cool coastal desert on earth. It is located primarily in Chile but extends into Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Along with Antarctica, it is the driest desert on earth.
What is the difference between desert and plains?
Desert has no significant vegetation. Coastal plain usually has lots of vegetation.
What place do mammals have in the desert?
Mammals are found in all the deserts of the world except the Antarctic Desert. mammals in Antarctica are confined to coastal regions only. Seals are the only animals seen on land in Antarctica.
What is the difference in size between the Sahara Desert and Antarctica?
Antarctica - 14,000,000 square kilometers or 5,400,000 square miles. Sahara - 9,400,000+Square kilometers or 3,320,000+square miles.
What do you call a penguin in the desert?
A penguin! There are several species of penguin that live in Antarctica (a true desert) as well as on the coastal regions of the Namib Desert (Jackass Penguins) and Atacama Desert (Humboldt Penguins).
What is the difference between Antarctica and the desert?
In deserts, the snow melts at summer time, however in Antarctica, the snow never melts. (From Starprof): No, that isn't exactly true. I observed melting snow at McMurdo Station in late summer. The air temperature was about 40 F. Also, some snow disappears due to sublimation. If the term desert means a place of very little precipitation, then Antarctica qualifies as a desert.
What is a frigid desert?
A cold desert is a desert that may have snow in the winter instead of just dropping a few degrees in temperature like it would in a Hot and Dry Desert. Examples: Antarctica, Great Basin Desert, Gobi Desert, Colorado Plateau Desert. Sometimes cool coastal deserts are also included in this classification - Atacama Desert, Namib Desert.
What is the difference between Antarctica's and Sahara Desert's temperature?
The temperature of Antarctica can plunge to well below minus 100 degrees F and the temperature in the Sahara may exceed 130 degrees in some areas.
How do desert penguins adapt?
There is no such thing as a desert penguin. There are penguins that live in the desert, however. Antarctica is the largest desert in the world and penguins have adapted to live in the coastal regions of that continent. There are also penguins on the Pacific coast of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
