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Deserts

A dry, often sandy region of little rainfall, extreme temperatures, and sparse vegetation

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What so animals do at night in the desert?

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Many animals in the desert are nocturnal. Obviosly because of the sweltering heat. during the night is when many animals hunt, or drink.

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Does the Great Victoria Desert have Ayers Rock?

Ayers Rock (properly called uluru) is the big rock in and of itself, its something in a desert, not the desert itself.

Do deserts get evaporation?

Yes, a desert has evaporation. One of the characteristics of a desert is that a desert has a higher evaporation rate than precipitation rate. A desert may receive as much as 10 inches of rain per year but the evaporation rate, especially in the summer, can approach or exeed, one inch per day.

What desert is located in the Central Asian country Turkmenistan?

The big desert in Turkmenistan is called Garagum(gahr.uh.goom.)

Also spelled Karakum.

Are there cacti in the Australian desert?

Cacti are found naturally only in American deserts. However, several decades back someone decided to plant some prickly pear cacti in some of the desert areas of Australia and they have become a noxious invasive species.

Cacti are found naturally only in American deserts. However, several decades back someone decided to plant some prickly pear cacti in some of the desert areas of Australia and they have become a noxious invasive species.

How hot is it in the middle of the desert?

Every desert has its own climate statistics. Some deserts are cold, such as Antarctica. However, the hottest temperature ever reliably measured in a desert was 134 degrees F. at Furnace Creek in Death Valley of the Mojave Desert in 1913.

What's the difference between a cold desert and tundra?

the diffrence is that a tundra has plants and animals that live there however dessrts only have mostly plants

What desert lies east of the red sea and on the Arabian peninsula?

The answer would be the "Arabian Desert". North of the Arabian Desert and west of the Euphrates River, in northwestern Iraq is the "Syrian desert"

How are deserts defined?

There is in Egypt, most of Egypt are desert.

Which area in a desert has water?

It is an oasis, a spring in a sand-free area, around which vegetation may grow.

Where is the largest underground room located?

terraxixos.com . The largest is now underway in Kansas .

Are there any buildings in the desert?

Millions of people inhabit cities and towns in the desert and each community is made up of many buildings.

How many deserts are there on the African continent?

There are three major deserts in Africa:

The Sahara

The Kalahari

The Namib

Where is the desert in northern africa?

The "Sahara" cuts across a huge swathe ( 9,400,000 square kilometers) of the North of the continent of Africa from East to West, it actually covers most of North Africa.

The Sahara starts at the Red Sea to the East and the Mediterranean coasts of Africa to the North and stretched to the Atlantic Ocean in the West. Its Southern margin is delimited by the Sahel belt.

Where water is derived from in an oasis?

An oasis is generally in an area in lower areas of the desert where ground water is able to seep to the surface in the form of a pond or spring.

How much precipitation does a desert biome receive annually?

A desert is defined as a region that receives less than 10 inches (250 mm) of precipitation per year on average.

How do the deserts and rivers of southwest Asia impact trade and affect where people live?

Mountains

- People will live around the base of the mountain

- Can't really do agriculture

- Travel by rivers, on foot, etc

Deserts

- Few people will live here

- Can't do any farming because of poor soil/no soil

- Travel on foot or by camel, etc

Water Features

- You can find a lot of people around rivers and near oceans, etc

- Agriculture, fishing, etc

- Travel on river or by foot, etc

Is Spain a desert?

yes. mainly in the south. eg: Tabernas desert in the province of Almería or Los Monegros desert in the province of Zaragoza... Anyway deserts are not common in Spain.

What is the weather like in winter in the desert?

There are about 2 dozen major deserts in the world, some of them hot deserts, some of them cold. There is no single description that fits all of them The only thing they have in common is they are all dry, receiving less than 10 inches of rain per year on average.

There are about 2 dozen major deserts in the world, some of them hot deserts, some of them cold. There is no single description that fits all of them The only thing they have in common is they are all dry, receiving less than 10 inches of rain per year on average.

What is the altitude of a hot desert?

It depends on which desert! Please rewrite the question to ask about a specific desert,

Is it very dark at night in the desert?

Yes, the desert is quite dark at night unless the moon is full or nearly so. The skies full of stars are spectacular to view in the desert at night.