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Deserts
A dry, often sandy region of little rainfall, extreme temperatures, and sparse vegetation
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How many deserts in Antarctica?
Because Antarctica is a "polar" region, there is no precipitation, it has no lakes or rivers and is in fact the driest continent. Antarctica is the world's largest desert.
All of the continent of Antarctica is considered a desert. It is the driest continent on earth.
No, cacti are native to the Americas and do not naturally grow in Africa. If any cacti are in Africa, they were planted by man.
What is a green place in the desert called?
An oasis is known as a place where water can be found in a desert. But in fact it is a small fertile or green area in a desert region, usually having a spring or well.
How have the animals of the Great Sandy Desert adapted?
Most deserts are formed when mountains form a barrier between the land and the rain-providing oceans, meaning that the prevailing winds flow over the mountains and dry out before sweeping over the desert.
In the case of the Great Sandy Desert, and many other deserts in Australia, the main reason for their formation is that Australia is such a vast continental expense that moisture-bearing winds cannot penetrate that far inland on a regular basis. Weather conditions and location form a major influence: hot moist air rises at the equator, and most of the moisture falls on tropical regions as it moves south. The newly dry air sinks as it crosses the subtropical regions, becoming warmer as it sinks. This, in turn, produces more evaporation than rain, which are perfect conditions for desert to form.
How humans harm deserts:
- By building roads through them
- By driving strait through the desert, destroying plants
- Constructions throughout the desert
- Overgrazing sheep and cattle may destroy plants-though this has slowed over the years
- Military training, though helpful in protecting deserts, may crush plants and small animals
- By overusing water
- Desert Farms
- and rally car races
How humans help deserts:
- By conserving water; if you conserve water where you live, there will be more water for the dry deserts
- Volunteer in a desert by pulling out nonnative desert plants
How many deserts are there in the whole earth?
There are 24 major desert regions and dozens of minor deserts on the planet. For a list of most deserts, click here.
Does altitude and latitude affect the desert?
Yes it does. The higher the altitude, the cooler the temperature in general.
Are animals active in the day time in the desert?
Most animals that live in the desert are inactive during the day, and active at night. This is so they can conserve moisture, rather than losing it to the heat of the day, as many of them get all their moisture from the food they eat.
What are the two deserts in the northwest of China?
Both the Gobi Desert and the Taklamakan Desert are major deserts in China.
Why do you need to stay hydrated in the desert?
If you don't stay hydrated you could have a heatstroke and possibly die. A heatstroke is like a spasm your whole body has and you pass out. It is important to stay hydrated because your body needs water/hydration to stay healthy. That is why you need to stay hydrated. Especially in the desert.
What states are deserts found in?
Answer 1
The United Sates is not subdivided into two other countries.
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Answer 2
The US shares two deserts with Mexico.
- Chihuahuan Desert
- Sonoran Desert
And the Canadian Yukon also runs into Alaska, which is technically an arctic desert.
What is a desert with a big cave?
yes there are caves in deserts
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Depending on the specific desert's geology. You may find rock-shelters eroded in sandstane by wind-blown sand, but not necessarily karst caves.
One desert that does hold caves is the Nullarbor Plain (S. Australia), with major, water-filled passages in limestone at some depth below the arid land surface.
There also caves in near-arid spots like the mountains of Iran.
There is no geographical feature which most people would describe as a 'desert' in the US state of Missouri.
What is a desert scavenger and is seen flying above dead animals?
A vulture or a raven - both are scavengers.
Does the desert have a rainy season?
Many deserts have a dry season and a rainy season. Others, such as the Atacama, are dry all year long.
What are the bodies of water in the southwest desert region?
Many deserts have vast bodies of water below their surfaces. As an example he northern Sahara aquifer system (or Nubian Aquifer) has an area nearly double that of mainland France and holds more than 30,000 cubic kilometers of water.
No, most deserts contain hills and dunes which is true for most of the land on Earth
