Is Antarctica the driest place on earth?

Answer 1

No. It is the driest continent. Average humidity is about five percent.

Antarctica is the coldest, highest and driest continent on the planet, it also occupies 10% of the earth's surface.

The dry valley region in Antarctica is one of the driest places on earth. The Attacama Desert is recognized as the driest place on earth. Parts of the Attacama Desert haven't received rainfall in over 400 years.

Answer 2:

No. Though certain portions of central Antarctica are very dry, The Atacama Desert in Chile is recognized as the driest place on Earth by NASA and many other agencies. I receives an average of 0.1 millimeters (0.04 inches) of rain a year. According to studies the Atacama desert has not received any significant rainfall since 1540 and some regions have not received significant rainfall in 120,000 years! The only significant moisture in this region comes from fog that sometimes rolls in from the Pacific Ocean and sustains some algaes at higher altitudes.

Answer 2

No the coldest place on Earth is a block of metal in America. Not only is this the coldest place in the world, but its the coldest place in the Universe. It is at a rate of 457.8 degrees,that's as cold as it gets. That is called subzero, it means below zero.

Vostok in the central region of Antarctica has the lowest temperature ever recorded on earth this temperature was recorded at -81 Celsius.

Answer 3

Because of the lack of liquid fresh water and rainfall. Humidity in Antarctica is about five percent.
Though Antarctica is sort of like an ice plain, scientists define the driest continent by the amount of rainfall it has, and Antarctica does not rain much, receiving only 8 inches of wintry precipitation a year.

Another Answer

Antarctica is a polar continent covered by an ice sheet that contains 70% of the earth's fresh water. Its humidity -- on average is about five percent, because it's too cold for any precipitation to fall except as ice crystals.

Over the millennia, these ice crystals have blown around the continent and their weight has compacted itself into the ice sheet that covers the continent. Scientists core through the ice sheet to learn more about the history of planet earth and its health.
Because of quirks of geography, very little rain/snow falls there.

Answer 4

Antarctica is the biggest desert in the world. It is Referred to as a dessert because of lack of vegetation, Water doesn't fall from the sky instead it snows and there is no running water. The only difference is that snow covers the ground.

Answer 5

Antarctica is the driest place on earth because it is all dry ice and it never rains there

Answer 6

its dry, in that, it has no fluidic water, but the wettest place, because it is coverd in ice

Answer 7

Yes, and the highest, the darkest, the windiest and the coldest continent.

Answer 8

Out of all the continents Antarctica is the driest.