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Deserts
A dry, often sandy region of little rainfall, extreme temperatures, and sparse vegetation
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Can you light a fire in the desert?
- Lighting strikes
- Shards of glass (broken bottles) focus sunlight and ignite vegetable matter
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How do people survive in the Great Sandy Desert?
Australia is the home of the Great Sandy Desert. Even though this desert gets very hot, it is abundant with plants, wildlife, and trees. People that live in this area, survive by living off of the land.
How do people obtain these valuable resources found in the desert?
In a desert you can find copper, aloe vera, uranium, mineral zinc, and rocks. All of these things are harvested and obtained in different ways- aloe vera is harvested from the leaves of the aloe plant, where as uraniu, and copper can be found in various rocks above and below the ground.
Which is the only continent without a desert?
The only continent in the world with no major deserts is Europe.
Do you get living things in the desert?
Many. Countless, actually (a few mammals, like hyraxes and camels, and countless terrestrial arthropods and reptiles).
How many countries does the largest desert in the world cover?
For a list of the major deserts of the world and the countries in which they occur, click on this link.
What animals do you chiefly associate with a desert?
Insects account for the greatest percentage of animals in the desert, especially ants and termites.
Which continent contains the driest hot desert?
Parts of the Sahara Desert in Africa receive very little rainfall each year making it, overall, the driest hot desert in the world. The driest cold deserts are Antarctica and the Atacama Desert in South America.
Give one false statement about deserts?
The correct false statement is. That they are very hot. Deserts are very hot but they are also cold at night.
This is partially true. For a desert to be desert it needs to see a very little amount of precipation. To the point that most plants and animals can not survuive there. There is no heat requirement not all deserts are hot. The largest desert is considered to be Antartica and obviously its not hot there.
Yes, there are deserts in the Americas.
Major Deserts in North America:
Great Basin Desert
Chihuahuan Desert
Sonoran Desert (includes the Colorado Desert)
Colorado Plateau Desert (includes the Painted Desert)
Mojave Desert (includes Death Valley)
Major Deserts in South America:
Patagonian Desert
Atacama Desert
Sechura Desert
Monte Desert
Guajira Desert
How would you describe a desert island?
A desert island is one with nobody living on it. (from 'deserted' rather than the region 'desert'). Hence it can look like anything, although usually it'll be inhospitable (No fresh water or no trees or something like that (there's usually a reason for nobody to live there)) It could just be a strip of sand.
How is it possible for a man to survive 10 days in the desert without water?
A person could not survive for 10 days without water in the desert. In fact, in the heat of summer a person could not survive 10 hours without water. Here in the Chihuahuan Desert this summer (2015) two inexperienced people went hiking on a day when the temperature exceeded 100 degrees F. They carried little water. A few hours later they were found dead. Their young son was the only survivor and he only survived because his parents had given him the little water they had.
Why deserts are always seen on the western side of the country?
Not all deserts are on the western side of the country.
The vast Gobi Desert covers the northwest of China and the Southern area of Mongolia.
In an atlas showing China, the Gobi desert is definitely in the north, not on the western side.
- Africa: The Sahara Desert runs across the northern part of Africa not down its western side.
- Algeria: The Sahara desert covers the southeastern parts the country of Algeria.
- Eritrea: The country of Eritrea is fertile on the west. The desert areas are on the east. Their Danikil Desert is situated in the northeast of the country.
- Sudan's Nubian Desert is in the northeast of the country.
The Arabian Desert covers most of Saudi Arabia and is not confined to the western side. The Arabian Desert is also known as the Eastern Desert, because it starts on the eastern side of Africa.
- Kazakhstan's Kyyzyl-Kurn Desert is in the south of the country. Their Moyynqum desert is distinctively in the centre of their country, whereas their Betpaqdala desert is in eastern Kazakhstan.
The Chihuahuan Desert, North America, is not on the western side of the US, it is in the south.
As far as Mexico is concerned, the Chihuahuan Desert covers the central north of the country, and more of it lies on the east of the country than on the west.
The Patagonian Desert reaches the Atlantic Ocean on its eastern boundary, but nowhere does this desert reach the western shores (Pacific) of South America. Its western side stops at the Andes mountains, so more of this desert covers the eastern side than the western side of that part of the earth. It stretches to Chile, but it is more on the eastern side of Chile, not the western side.
- Israel: The Judean Desert is in eastern Israel.
- Pakistan: The Thar Desert covers the southeastern part of the country.
CONCLUSION: While it is true that many deserts are seen on the western sides of countries, it can also be seen, on the basis on the evidence provided above, that deserts, where they occur, are not always located on the western sides of the countries in which they are found.
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What kind of forest is hot and humid nearly all the time?
Most of the world's rainforests lie close to the equator. Because of this, the forest temperatures generally range from 70 to 90 degrees year round. And, it is rare for a rainforest to drop below 75 percent humidity.
What are the benefits of the deserts by the oasis?
An oasis is a place to find food water and shelter and rest
an Oasis is the low land area or a non-permeable(into interior (down) layers ) layered perched basin like where water can be stored. due to this availability of water vegetation will grow and people will habitated there
What desert in the US has the largest cactus in the world?
The largest cactus in the world is the cardon cactus, Pachycereus pringlei, of Mexico. It does not occur in the United States. The saguaro cactus is smaller and is found in the Sonoran Desert and parts of the Mojave Desert.
What are four deserts from at least three different continents?
North America - the Chihauhuan Desert, Great Basin Desert, Mojave Desert, and the Sonoran Desert.
South America - the Monte Desert, Atacama Desert, Sechura Desert, and the Patagonian Desert.
Australia - the Gibson Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Great Vistoria Desert and the Simpson Desert.
Asia - the Takalamakan Desert, Gobi Desert, Arabian Desert and the Thar Desert
Is a desert the hottest biome on Earth?
The desert is, at once, the hottest and coldest biome on earth. Antarctica can plunge to more than 100 F. degrees below zero and parts of the Sahara and Mojave can exceed 130 degrees F. above zero.
Which country is the largest desert in the world?
A large percentage of Australia is desert.
Clarification:
Nearly the entire continent of Antarctica is desert.
Why do some desert animals have fur?
The long hair will help insulate the animal from the Sun's heat during the day, and keep it warm during the freezing cold of the night. Most deserts' climate is usually either very hot or very cold.
