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If 15 percent is sandy and 70 percent is rocky What is the other 15 percent of the Sahara desert made of?
I am guessing it is water.
How do you get to Timbuktu?
It is 15 km (9.3 mi) north of the River Niger on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert.
How is the Sahara desert made?
it's 15% sand and the rest mountions and it has 4 citys and 200,00 pepole live in all 4 citys
What's the largest desert in the Earth?
The largest desert on earth is Antarctica.Well technically,the worlds largest desert is Antarctica but the worlds largest HOT desert would be the Sahara.The name of the world's largest desert is the Sahara in northern Africa.The largest desert in the world is Antarctica.The Sahara in Africa.the biggest sand desert in the earth is the Sahara desert. the biggest arctic desert is AntarcticaAntarctica is the biggest polar desert in the world.The Sahara Desert in Northern Africa spans an area measured roughly at probably 3-3.5 million square miles. Which is probably one of the biggest non polar desert.The Sahara Desert Sahara is the largest desert in the world, encompassing almost all of northern Africa. Covering an area of about 3.3 million sq mi (8.6 million sq km), it is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Atlas Mountains, the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, and the Sahel region. It includes portions of several countries, including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, and The Sudan.Sahara desert. Area = 9.65 million sq km.IN ADDITION:By receiving less than 2 inches of rainfall per year, Antarctica is considered a desert. At 14.4 million square kilometers (5.4 million square miles), It is the largest desert on the planet Earth.The largest desert in the world is named the Antarctic Desert. It is a huge polar desert covering much of Antarctica.A desert is a region of land that receives less than 250 mm of rain per year. Thus, the largest desert is the Antarctic with an area of 18 million km2 in winter. This is followed by the Arctic (which is also an ocean) with an area of 15 million km2 in winter and the Sahara with an area of roughly 8.6 million km2.
What is the latitude and longitude of the desert biome?
The Sahara Desert covers most of northern Africa. Its latitude stretches from approximately 35 degrees N to 15 degrees N. Its longitude extends from approximately 35 degrees E to 15 degrees W.
What percentage of the deserts on earth are covered in sand?
searching the web for an answer to the same question, I found this:http://www.pbs.org/wnet/africa/explore/sahara/sahara_topography_lo.htmlso, it seems the percentage of sand desert amount to 20. I hope this results to be useful. bye.Seem to remember it being between 12% and 20% sand the rest rock, and scree
What number makes 1000 if you take 15 percent away from it?
1176.471 (rounded)
What type of a desert is the Sahara?
The Sahara Desert is a hot, dry area covering most of North Africa.Because there is practically no rainfall, few plants can grow there and those that do are specialized for arid conditions. In some parts there are no plants at all. Occasional wet areas fed by underground springs support oases, where plants grow well and people can live all year long.In 1922 a temperature of 136° F (57.8°C) was recorded, making the Sahara the hottest desert in the world.It is also the biggest hot desert in the world. However, it is the second biggest desert, as Antarctica is the biggest desert (but a cold desert).Some parts of the Sahara are sandy with giant dunes, while other areas are gravel plains, rock plateaus and mountains (only 3/8th of the Sahara Desert is sand).it is an expanse of sand where almost nothing lives only a few organisms are capable of surviving there .Some of the sand dunes can reach 180 metres (590 ft in in heightThe climate of the Sahara has undergone enormous variation between wet and dry over the last few hundred thousand years.[11] During the last glacial period, the Sahara was even bigger than it is today, extending south beyond its current boundaries.[12] The end of the glacial period brought more rain to the Sahara, from about 8000 BC to 6000 BC, perhaps because of low pressure areas over the collapsing ice sheets to the north.[13]Once the ice sheets were gone, northern Sahara dried out. In the southern Sahara though, the drying trend was soon counteracted by the monsoon, which brought rain further north than it does today. The monsoon season is caused by heating of air over the land during summer. The hot air rises and pulls in cool, wet air from the ocean, which causes rain. Thus, though it seems counterintuitive, the Sahara was wetter when it received more insulation in the summer. This was caused by a stronger tilt in Earth's axis of orbit than today, and perihelion occurred at the end of July around 7000 BC.[14]By around 3400 BC, the monsoon retreated south to approximately where it is today,[15] leading to the gradual desertification of the Sahara.[16] The Sahara is now as dry as it was about 13,000 years ago.[11] These conditions are responsible for what has been called the Sahara pump theory.The Sahara has one of the harshest climates in the world. The prevailing north-easterly wind often causes sand storms and dust devils.[17] When this wind reaches the Mediterranean, it is known as sirocco and often reaches hurricane speeds in North Africa and southern Europe. Half of the Sahara receives less than 20 mm (0.79 in) of rain per year, and the rest receives up to 100 mm (3.9 in) per year.[18] The rainfall happens very rarely, but when it does it is usually torrential when it occurs after long dry periods.The southern boundary of the Sahara, as measured by rainfall, was observed to both advance and retreat between 1980 and 1990. As a result of drought in the Sahel, the southern boundary moved south 130 kilometres (81 mi) overall during that period.[19]Recent signals indicate that the Sahara and surrounding regions are greening because of increased rainfall. Satellite imaging shows extensive re greening of the Sahel between 1982 and 2002, and in both Eastern and Western Sahara a more than 20 year long trend of increased grazing areas and flourishing trees and shrubs has been observed
What is the sand in the Desert made up of?
actually most deserts are made up of less than one fourth sand. the Sahara Desert is around 1/7 sand
What are the 13 names of hot deserts?
There are a number of hot deserts. Here are a few examples:Sahara - northern AfricaArabian Desert - Arabian PeninsulaKalahari Desert - south central AfricaThar Desert - India and PakistanGreat Victoria Desert - AustraliaMojave Desert - southwestern United StatesChihuahuan Desert - Mexico and southwestern United StatesSonoran Desert - southwestern United States and MexicoGibson Desert - Australia
What are the release dates for Oases of the Sahara - 1923?
Oases of the Sahara - 1923 was released on: USA: 15 February 1923
What are Five cities south of 30 degrees north and west of 15 degrees east?
Boy, that's tough. These coordinates are in the northern Sahara Desert, about 50 miles southeast of Tripoli, and you have to go hundreds of miles south and west to find anything larger than an oasis in the desert.
