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There are four main desert biomes: hot and dry deserts, semiarid deserts, coastal deserts, and cold deserts. A cold desert is a desert that has snow in the winter instead of just dropping a few degrees in temperature like they would in a hot and dry desert. It never gets warm enough for plants to grow, allowing for the existence of some types of grasses and some varieties of mosses. The animals in cold deserts also have to burrow into the ground, but in the case to keep warm, not cool. Cold desert temperatures in winter range from -2 to 4° C and in the summer 21 to 26° C. Cold deserts usually have lots of snow. They also have rain in the spring. They average 15-26 cm of rain in a year. This does not include snowfall.
The tundra zone maintains the only type of weather patterns conducive to the standards of a cold desert biome, establishing a unique biome that has everything in common with its three sister biomes, with the exception of the harsh temperature differences. The tundra weather zone is the only zone on the planet conducive to the sustainability of a cold desert biome, thus the name.
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Is a tundra hot and dry?
Tundra has a cold and dry climate. While some consider it as a desert, it is actually a different and distinct biome.
What is a descriptive word for tundra?
It is like a Desert but very cold, the ground is icy and the temperatures are very harsh
What is a polar climate region with a short cool summers and bitterly cold winters called?
Tundra
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 is England not in the tundra?
The longitude and latitude of England is not cold enough for tundra. Tundra is only in very cold regions of the world like Siberia. Tundra is frozen ground that is very cold.
Can tundra be called a cold desert?
Some scientists consider tundra to be a cold desert. However, most consider tundra to be a distinct biome from the desert biome.
Why the tundra is called the cold desert and the land of the midnight sun?
the sun barely comes out and the tundra is cold
What is A cold dry treeless region sometimes called a cold desert?
Tundra, believe me Tundra, believe me Tundra, believe me
How does the Tundra compare with the Desert?
Tundra is cold and the desert is hot
Is tundra a forest?
No, the tundra is a cold desert.
Where is Canada's cold desert?
The cold desert is in the Arctic Area, near the North Pole. Technically, the area is tundra and not desert.
What are the cold desert plains in northern Canada?
Tundra
What biome is extreamly cold and dry?
I think the turndra has the most extreme cold and rarely has precipitation but it's mostly snow, there's also the desert which is cold at night and gets no snow but I would think tundra.
How are tundra and deserts and different?
A tundra is extremely cold, whilst a desert is extremely hot and dry.
What biome is cold but has no more precipation than the desert?
The tundra has about the same precipitation as a desert.
The tundra region is usually referred to as a cold desert?
yes
Are snowballs in the tundra?
no because it is solid ice that is why they call it the cold desert
