Deserts

1.) Low precipitation2.) Limited plant life

3.) Temperature extremes

Their both arid regions but the main difference is steppes are high altitude plateaus and receive a little more rainfall, enough to typically sustain grass and possibly short hardy trees and shrubs such as in Mongolia or Western China. They tend to be cold regions with short summers as well. Deserts receive little rainfall, or the bulk of their rain during the summer when it's hot and may receive it suddenly where a lot of it flows away in gullies. Deserts can be at high or low altitude, behind or on the leeward side of mountains (Nevada,Utah,Arizona), along coasts w/ cold ocean currents (Mexico,Chile, Peru) and deserts can be hot by day and cold by night (Sahara) or cold most of the year as in Antarctica or Mars.

The White Desert, a dramatic shimmering chalk landscape in western Egypt, is rightfully regarded as one of the country's incredible natural wonders.

The remote location, roughly 500 kilometres from Cairo, provides an unrivalled and inspiring natural retreat away from the city's noise and pollution.

Between the Nile Delta Valley and the Libyan border, the White Desert extends over 300 square kilometres west of the Farafra Oasis. Arriving there is like stepping into another planet, one where tranquillity reigns supreme and contact with nature is unaffected by the trappings of modern life.

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There are also cool deserts and cold deserts. The main feature that unites them all under the term 'desert' is the lack of water, not temperature.

Antarctica is classified as a desert because it receives very little precipitation, primarily in the form of snow. It is the driest and windiest continent on Earth. While it may have tundra-like characteristics, such as cold temperatures and low-growing vegetation, its classification as a desert is based on its extreme aridity.

Taklamakan Desert, People's Republic of China - 100,000 square miles.

Australia

Northern Africa (Egypt, Niger, Libya, Sudan, Tunisia, etc)

Chile

The Middle East (especially Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iraq, Kuwait and UAE)

Mexico

South Africa

Namibia

Somalia

Central Asia (Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, etc)

Antarctica is the largest desert in the world.

A stony desert is called a 'Reg' desert.

A sandy desert is called an 'Erg' desert.

The Negev Desert is found in southern Israel.

No, the closest desert to Dallas is hundreds of miles away in far west Texas - the Chihuahuan Desert.

The desert doesn't rain but it does rain in the desert. A desert is defined as a region that receives less than 10 inches of rain (250 mm) on average per year. Some deserts can go for years without a drop of rain, however.

The desert doesn't rain but it does rain in the desert. A desert is defined as a region that receives less than 10 inches of rain (250 mm) on average per year. Some deserts can go for years without a drop of rain, however.

It is located in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Parts of a number of deserts have been made arable using irrigation, including the Negev Desert in Israel, the Mojave, Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts in the United States.

Yes, Palm Springs is located in the Sonoran Desert of California.

Meerkats can survive in the desert because of the food supply there. Meerkats eat bugs, like beetles, centipedes, millipedes, and other gross bugs. Also, if it gets too hot, there are trees waiting to give them shade. At night, many predators are out and it is very cold, so mmerkats huddle together in an underground burrow to keep warm.

Although this is a very broad question, the desert is usually flat

Illinois has no true deserts.

Minerals, especially gypsum, is weathered out of the surrounding mountains by rainfall. It is washed onto the floor of the desert where the water evaporates leaving a deposit of white gypsum sand. Wind may then carry this white sand to the surrounding desert and form dunes.

No, Houston is hundreds of miles from a desert. The closest desert is the Chihuahuan Desert in far-west Texas, a distance of about 600 miles.