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Deserts
A dry, often sandy region of little rainfall, extreme temperatures, and sparse vegetation
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What kind of plants are good to grow in the desert?
There are a variety of trees, shrubs, grasses, annuals, perennials, succulents, and even ferns and mosses that are adapted to deserts around the world.
What type of desert is the Patagonian Desert?
Patagonian desert is a Cold desert. The normal temperature of this desert is about 3-4 degree Celsius.
- Oases were important because water and food was to be found there, and people lived there who could offer shelter or sell you pack animals if you needed extra
- camels were important as they were the most fit to travel across the desert and carry the goods you were trading
- military posts were important because they offered protection against the many robbers along the way.
How big is the arctic desert in kilometers?
The Arctic desert is 14.0 kilometers big. This the 5th largest desert in Asia.
Yes and no! Cattle do not live naturally in the desert but ranchers allow their herds to graze in the desert.
What is the difference between chaparral and desert?
Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the U.S. state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico. It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild, wet winters and hot dry summers) and wildfire, featuring summer-drought tolerant plants with hard sclerophyllous evergreen leaves, as contrasted with the associated soft-leaved, drought deciduous, scrub community of coastal sage scrub, found below the chaparral biome. (Wikipedia)
A desert a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all.
What are Australian deserts like?
Australian deserts vary. Some consist of flat, infertile soil with no vegetation but saltbush, bluebush and spinifex; some consist of huge, long, red and yellow sandy dunes; others are little more than treeless gibber plain (stony desert).
Which southwestern desert includes an area below sea level?
The Mojave Desert includes Death Valley which has areas well below sea level - 282 feet below sea level to be exact.
What are the deserts of the eastern Mediterranean?
Some Mideastern Deserts:
Arabian Desert
Negev Desert
Dasht-e Lut
Syrian Desert
Dasht-e Kavir
What is the annual temperature range in deserts?
Deserts include both hot dry deserts like the Sahara and Arabian deserts and cold dry deserts like the Antarctic. The Sahara can range as high as +50oC during the day and below freezing at night. and the Antarctic the minimum temperature ranges from -80 °C to -90 °C. During summer, the high temperature lies between 5°C and 15°C
How many people die in deserts every year?
That question is impossible to answer as most deserts are huge areas with few observers to keep a toll of animal mortalities.
In what desert is the Joshua tree located?
Yes, they do thrive there. See the related links belolw for more info:
Why are deserts barren places?
The vegetation of deserts is scarce because of the harsh conditions. Deserts are very dry and the lack of good soil and hydration makes it hard for many plants to adapt to the conditions. Of course, some plants - such as the cactus - grow well in hot, dry conditions, but as mentioned before, it's not a majority of the plant species.
The Antarctic Desert is the largest desert on earth.
The Antarctic Desert is the largest desert on earth.
What large desert in Africa is almost as big as the 48 contiguous states in the US?
The Sahara is nearly as big as the 48 states.
What are the names of US deserts?
Major Deserts of the Americas:
North America:
Great Basin Desert
Sonoran Desert
Chihuahuan Desert
Mojave Desert
Colorado Plateau Desert
South America:
Atacama Desert
Patagonian Desert
Sechura Desert
Monte Desert
Guajira Desert
What continent is the Australian desert on?
There is no official desert called the "Great Australian Desert". This is just a generic name given to the deserts and outback regions on the continent of Australia. The so-called Great Australian Desert is actually made up of the following separate deserts:
- Great Victoria Desert
- Great Sandy Desert
- Tanami Desert
- Simpson Desert
- Gibson Desert
- Little Sandy Desert
- Strzelecki Desert
- Sturt Stony Desert
- Tirari Desert
- Pedirka Desert
How much does it rain in the Sonoran Desert?
The Sonoran Desert is one of the wettest deserts in North America and averages from 3 to 16 inches of rain a year. It has two rainy seasons, one in the summer and another in the winter. The summer rains are short and heavy. The winter rains are longer and lighter and are more widespread.
What large desert is near by Nigeria?
The largest hot desert in the world, and the largest African desert, is the Sahara. It has an area of around 9,000,000 square kilometres (3,500,000 sq mi).
The largest desert in the world is Antarctica.
It is the Sahara Desert
What is the size of the Outback Desert?
There is no single desert known as the "outback desert" in Australia. There are numerous deserts. The three largest deserts in Australia are:
Great Victoria Desert (Western Australia): 424,400 km2 (163,900 square miles)
Great Sandy Desert (Western Australia): 284,993 km2 (110,036 square miles)
Tanami Desert (Western Australia and Northern Territory): 184,500 km2 (71,235 square miles)
Each of these deserts is either in or primarily in Western Australia, in the western third of the continent.
The Nullarbor Plain is an arid, limestone region extending for some 270,000 square km above the Great Australian Bight. Nothing is cultivated there, and in many respects its aridness places it within the category of desert, but there is little (if any) sand there.
Other deserts include -
Simpson Desert (Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia): 176,500 km2 (68,145 square miles)
Gibson Desert (Western Australia): 156,000 km2 (60,230 square miles)
Little Sandy Desert (Western Australia): 111,500 km2 (43,050 square miles)
Strzelecki Desert (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia): 80,250 km2 (30,985 square miles)
Sturt Stony Desert (South Australia): 29,750 km2 (11,485 square miles)
Tirari Desert (South Australia): 15,250 km2 (5,890 square miles)
Pedirka Desert (South Australia): 1,250 km2 (480 square miles)
Why do you think most of Egypt was mainly desert?
It depends on how the question is read:
Why do people say that Egypt is mostly desert? -- Because it is. Most of Egypt gets minimal rainfall and has long patches of arid land. That is the definition of a desert. Over two-thirds of the country is made up of the Sahara Desert.
Why is Egypt a desert? -- The moisture bearing winds that blow from the south and the west lose their water over the Atlas Mountains and the West African coast respectively, making the Sahara incredibly dry.
