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Deserts
A dry, often sandy region of little rainfall, extreme temperatures, and sparse vegetation
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Why is the desert air more dense than the ocean air at night?
What desert is the largest desert in northern Africa?
The Sahara Desert is the largest desert in northern Africa and the second largest desert in the world.
Which continent is home to the Altai Mountains and Syrian Desert?
Asia is home of the Syrian Desert and the Altai Mountains.
Are there beaches in the desert?
Yes, there are a number of places in the world where deserts are found along the coast. Northern Mexico is an example, as well as the Atacama in Chile and the Namib in Namibia.
Why don't South Australia and New South Wales have deserts?
They do. South Australia is the driest of the Australian states, and its deserts include the Great Victoria Desert, Simpson Desert, Tirari Desert, Pedirka Desert, Strzelecki Desert and Sturt Stony Desert. The far west of New South Wales has areas of desert: the Strzelecki Desert and Sturt Stony Desert are partially in New South Wales.
Is the sonoran derest located in the southwest or the northeast part of the us?
is the sonoran desert located in the southwest or the northeast part of the u.s.
What is the definition of desert region?
a region with a common characteristic of less than 250 mm of precipitation per year throughout the whole area.
ex: Sahara desert
How tall is a saguaro cactus when its fifty years old?
The saguaro growth depends on the amount of rainfall it receives so they grow faster in some areas than in others. At 50 years the cactus would probably be in the 10 to 15 foot range and not have grown an arm yet.
What are the seasons in the desert?
The desert has the same 4 seasons as elsewhere - summer, fall, winter and spring.
What is the Origin name of desert?
Desert is derived from the Hebrew word desertum, meaning solitude.
lol! although the hawks eat up the dead bodies of other animals they are not decomposers because Decomposers (or saprotrophs) are organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms, and in doing so carry out the natural process of decomposition in giving back nutrients to the autotrophs.
Why does sweat evaporate quickly in the desert?
Hot deserts generally have a very low humidity and water evaporates quite rapidly.
What desert is inhabited by the?
The Kalahari. Not as big as the Sahara, but still pretty big area. and your name is johnathan...:P
This was sort of a mantra or motto used by SR-71 (and perhaps A-12) pilots. They flew over the most dangerous places in the world at the time (Soviet Union during cold war, Vietnam, ect.), but were mostly impervious due to their high altitude (80,000+ feet). I have no idea which specific pilot, crew member, engineer, whatever came up with it.
Can Sahara be made green by human intervention?
Absolutely no. As the desert occupied almost 9.1 million square kilometer (3.5 million square miles) it is impossible to make whole of the desert in green.
Firstly, it is due to its soil content. The desert are totally consist of sand of 0.2-2 mm in diameter and this just cannot allow the trees to grow. The reason is that there are no water reservoir among the soil particles as it easily leached. Furthermore, if water is supplied, the sand can choke or suffocated the trees. We can apply the organic material to the desert but are we willing to collect or dig just to cover the Sahara?
Secondly, if we CAN control the climate, then we may have an opportunity to survive in Sahara. The temperature and rainfall in Sahara just not adequate to even the Sahara itself.
However, there a a small parts in the desert that are able to be an agriculture activities which the water reservoirs (oasis) is there.
Take a note, we just cannot make Sahara green, but Sahara taking the green parts of the adjacent area.
Are there Aboriginals in the Great Victoria Desert?
Yes. Large areas of the Great Victoria Desert are are under the controll of aboriginal land holding bodies. The north is under the care of Anangu Pitjantjatjara. They hold an inalienable freehold title under the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act 1981. The Maralinga Tjarutja Land Rights Bill 1983 granted inalienable title to 7.74 million hectares of Great Victoria Desert land to the traditional owners who were displaced by the Maralinga Nuclear tests. Sections of the north western part of the desert are Ngaanyatjarra Lands. In 2000 the Spinifex people or Pila Nguru based at Tjuntjuntjara were granted 55,000 square kilometres of land by the Federal Court. Aboriginal people also have a joint management arrangement on Conservation reserves in the desert. The Tjuntjuntjara community operate the Ilkurka Roadhouse which is approximately half way along the Ann Beadell highway in the middle of the Great Victoria Desert.
Why is the driest desert is located in northern Chile?
The driest desert is Antarctica with the Atacama a close second. The Atacama is a rain shadow desert. The Andes Mountains block moisture from the Amazon Basin and the Atlantic from crossing so no rain falls in the Atacama.
