Deserts

The vast majority (more than 99%) of the people who live in deserts live in cities and towns and the majority of them have running water in their homes. For those who live in areas without running water, their are rives and oases that provide water year round.

There are actually more then two factors:

1.) The high Andes Mountains to the east that block moisture from the Amazon Basin and Atlantic Ocean from reaching the Atacama.

2.) The coastal mountain ranges that prevent Pacific moisture from reaching the desert.

3.) The cold Humboldt Current in the Pacific brings cold water to the coastline that has little evaporation.

4.) A perpetual inversion layer hangs over the desert. The upper atmosphere is warmer than the surface air. This prevents convection that could form rain clouds.

5.) Even when there is evaporation from the Pacific, the prevailing winds are from the east and the moisture is blown in a westerly direction, away from the desert.

Soil, sand, gravel, rock, water, air and light are all abiotic factors found in a desert.

The Namib Desert covers most of Namibia but a small part of the Kalahari Desert also enters the country.

The Mojave Desert is in the United States. It extends into 4 states, though most of it is located in Southern California, and small portions of the desert are in Utah, Nevada, and Arizona.

a desert is a place where it rains less than 10 inches a year so some deserts are not sandy

Many deserts are the result of mountain ranges blocking the flow of moisture from an ocean. The moist air is forced upward on the leeward side where the water in the air condenses and falls as rain or snow. The air, now dry, passes to the leeward side of the mountain range and a rain shadow desert forms. See the image above.

Deserts are very dry and humid. They are usually very sandy with little life maybe a little shrubary here and there or cactuses but other than that they are pretty bland.

AKA, Krystal Fraser.

Semi-desert means semi-arid. A desert receives less than 10 inches (250 mm) of annual precipitation on average. A semi-arid region receives between 10 inches (250 mm) and 20 inches (500 mm) of precipitation per year.

There are a number of choices that qualify:

California

Arizona

New Mexico

Nevada

Texas

Utah

Colorado

No, Nebraska has no true deserts. It does have large areas of semiarid grasslands but no deserts.

It's getting hot in here

Water and vegetation is mainly found around natural spring areas (oasis), vegetation is also sometimes found above underground watercourses or shallow depressions where water can accumilate below the soil level.

There are also numerous examples of rivers which flow through desert areas, which obviously have vegetation along the banks.

Pipe Cactus Organ

Popcorn FlowerSome desert plants are the " drought evaders" . They exist as seeds before the rain comes, and grow when it rains. They flower quickly to produce seeds and then die. There are " drought resisters" --- perennial plants that possess the abilities of storing water, locating underground water or minimizing the use of water by various measures.

Morman Tea

Fairy Duster

Yes, Death Valley is located in the Mojave Desert.

The Sahara is located in northern Africa but it is not the largest desert in the world. Antarctica is the largest desert in the world. The Sahara is the largest hot desert.

No, they receive over 10 inches of rain annualy.

camels fish birds and rats lizards and lions :)

American Toad

Beaver

Box Turtle

Bull Frog

Crayfish

Copperhead

Dekay's Brown Snake

Dragonfly

Eastern Cottontail Rabbit

Eastern Fox Squirrel

Eastern Grey Squirrel

Eastern Hog-Nosed Snake

Five-Lined Skink

Green Frog

Little Brown Bat

Minnows

Monarch Butterfly

Muskrat

North American Wood Turtle

Northern Bobwhite

Northern Raccoon

Northern Water Snake

Painted Turtle

Rat Snake

Red Salamander

Snapping Turtle

Spotted Turtle

Striped Skunk

Southern Cricket Frog

Tadpole

Virginia Opossum

White-tailed deer

Birds

American Crow

American Robin

Barn Owl

Barred Owl

Bluebirds

Blue Jay

Broad-Winged Hawk

Canada Goose

Great Blue Heron

Green Heron

Indigo Bunting

Kingfisher

Mallard

Northern Cardinal

Red-Headed Woodpecker

Red-Tailed Hawk

Red-Winged Blackbird

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird

Short-eared Owl

Wild Turkey

Woodduck

Insects

American Dog Tick

Black Widow Spider

Centipede

Cicada

Cockroach

Common Field Katydid

Convergent Lady Beetle

Eastern Subterranean Termite

Eastern Yellowjacket

Elephant Stag Beetle

Firefly

Flower Spider

Golden Paper Wasp

Japanese Beetle (nonnative)

Luna Moth

Praying Mantis (Carolina Mantid)

Rolly Polly (Pill Bug)

Stable Fly

Tree Hole Mosquito

Woody plants found in the wetlands

American Sycamore

American Plum

Autumn-Olive (Invasive)

Black Cherry

Black Haw

Black Willow

Elderberry

Hazel Alder

Morrow Honeysuckle (Invasive)

Plants at the Wetlands

Bottlebrush

Bottle Gentian

Goldenrod

Milkweed

Sphagnum moss

Antarctica is the largest cold desert on earth. It is also the coldest.

89% to 93% of the Middle East is covered by desert. These numbers depend on the varying definitions of "the Middle East".

Penguins live in Antarctica, if that is where you mean.