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Are the badlands of Alberta and the U.S. considered desert areas?
Wiki User
∙ 14y ago
The Canadian Badlands have cacti, scorpions and rattlesnakes. They're smaller in size than what you would find in the American Southwest but they're there nonetheless. I always looked at the Canadian Badlands to be a temperate desert much like the Pacific Northwest is a temperate rain forest.
Alex
Medicine Hat
I'm afraid Alex is incorrect. Badlands are simply an eroded landform, making them part of whatever biome/ecosystem they are located in, so they are not deserts in their own right, although some (such as those in the Southwestern USA) are indeed located in deserts. The badlands of Alberta (as well as Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota) are located solidly within prairie areas, so they have the same climate as the rest of the prairie surrounding them, meaning they receive just as much rain and snowfall as surrounding areas. A desert is, roughly defined, an area that usually gets less than 250mm of precipitation annually, and the driest places in Alberta still get over 300mm annually. You could say that the Alberta badlands are located in a semi-desert, as the western half of the prairies are semi-arid (and deserts are arid), but the prairie badlands are not deserts themselves, nor are they located in desert areas. As well, one can just as easily find cacti, scorpions and rattlesnakes in prairie grassland areas so long as the areas are not too disturbed by humans or livestock.
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The Atacama Desert is considered by many to be the driest desert on earth. Others argue that the Antarctic Desert deserves the honor.
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Is Wyoming considered a desert climate?
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What desert in northern Chile includes areas where no rainfall has ever been recorded and is on of the driest places on earth?
The Atacama Desert is considered by many to be the driest desert on earth. Others argue that the Antarctic Desert deserves the honor.
Which three provinces are good agriculture areas?
Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
