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Why are some areas in the desert classified as deserts?
Your question is redundant. All deserts are classified as deserts because of the low precipitation.
How can areas in the Arctic can be classified as deserts?
Actually, most scientists classify the Arctic as sea ice and tundra. However, the Antarctic is a true desert as it lies totally on land and receives little annual precipitation.
Is the Arctic a polar desert or a Arctic tundra?
Most of the Arctic is polar sea ice. The small amount of land in the Arctic is classified as tundra, a separate biome from deserts.
Why can the Arctic tundra be called a desert?
Most of the Arctic is polar sea ice. The small amount of land in the Arctic is classified as tundra, a separate biome from deserts.
Why are areas in the Arctic classified as deserts?
Most do not classify the Arctic as desert since much of it is sea ice or tundra. However, nearly all of Antarctica is classified as desert as it is located on land and receives very little precipitation each year. Tundra is similar to desert as it receives limited precipitation and has limited plant life but most scientists classify it as a separate biome.
Why are areas in Arctic classified as desert?
The Antarctic is considered as a true desert because of low precipitation. Much of the Arctic is sea and sea ice and those areas of land in the Arctic are covered mostly by tundra, a distinctly different biome than a desert.
How are American southwest deserts classified?
The deserts are classified as hot subtropical deserts (Mojave, Sonoran and Chihuahuan) and cold winter deserts (Great Basin and Colorado Plateau).
What type of climate is in deserts of Egypt?
The deserts of Egypt are classified as hot deserts.
What are the two classifications of deserts?
Deserts are classified as either being hot or cold. The Sahara is a hot desert, the Atacama and Antarctic are classified as cold deserts.
Is the desert hot or cold?
Some deserts are classified as hot deserts - the Sahara, Arabian, Mojave, Chihuahuan, Sonoran for example. Some deserts are classified as cold, or cold winter, deserts - Antarctica, Great Basin, Gobi, Patagonian. Some are classified as cool coastal deserts - Atacama, Namib, for example
Are there hot and cold deserts?
Yes. Deserts are areas which receive almost no precipitation - less than 250mm per year. This includes the Antarctic and Arctic deserts, which are cold, but also more well known deserts such as the Sahara and Gobi deserts.
Are desserts tundras?
Well, DESERTS are tundras depending where you are. There are arctic tundras that are not deserts, but tundra deserts that are hot as well.
