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Deserts
A dry, often sandy region of little rainfall, extreme temperatures, and sparse vegetation
5,820 Questions
Are there any sounds in the desert?
Depending on the season of the year and time of day a person might hear1.) Wind rustling through the shrubs and plants
2.) The buzz or chirping of insects
3.) The howling of a coyote or wolf
4.) The rattling of a rattlesnake
5.) The singing or calls of native birds
Why don't people establish communities in the desert?
There are communities in the desert, some of them quite large. Millions of people around the world live in cities and towns in desert regions. Look at a few examples:
Cairo, Egypt
Las Vegas, Nevada
Phoenix, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
El Paso, Texas
Bakersfield, California
Palm Springs, California
Cd. Juarez, Mexico
Chihuahua, Mexico
Antofogasta, Chile
Arica, Chile
and many, many more
Does Washington have a desert region?
Yes, it does in fact. West of the Cascade Mountains ( The largest mountain chain of washington), it is very dry, and some areas even have deserts.
What are some plants that grow in the deserts of Europe?
Europe does not have any deserts. It is too far north of the equator to have the level of heat to create deserts. There are hot and dry places, but no deserts.
What is the annual rainfall in most deserts?
All deserts are different but a desert is defined as a region that receives less than 10 inches (250 mm) of annual rainfall on average. Some deserts go years or even centuries without rainfall.
What's the largest desert in the Earth?
The largest desert on earth is Antarctica.
Well technically,the worlds largest desert is Antarctica but the worlds largest HOT desert would be the Sahara.
The name of the world's largest desert is the Sahara in northern Africa.
The largest desert in the world is Antarctica.
The Sahara in Africa.
the biggest sand desert in the earth is the Sahara desert. the biggest arctic desert is Antarctica
Antarctica is the biggest polar desert in the world.
The Sahara Desert in Northern Africa spans an area measured roughly at probably 3-3.5 million square miles. Which is probably one of the biggest non polar desert.
The Sahara Desert Sahara is the largest desert in the world, encompassing almost all of northern Africa. Covering an area of about 3.3 million sq mi (8.6 million sq km), it is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the Atlas Mountains, the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, and the Sahel region. It includes portions of several countries, including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, and The Sudan.
Sahara desert. Area = 9.65 million sq km.
The largest desert in the world is named the Antarctic Desert. It is a huge polar desert covering much of Antarctica.
A desert is a region of land that receives less than 250 mm of rain per year. Thus, the largest desert is the Antarctic with an area of 18 million km2 in winter. This is followed by the Arctic (which is also an ocean) with an area of 15 million km2 in winter and the Sahara with an area of roughly 8.6 million km2.
How many desert are there in Spain?
There is not really a desert in Spain. The area reported as desert is less than six or seven miles across, is semi desert, is bisected by a highway, can be easily crossed on foot or by bicycle. However it is the only semi desert in Europe.
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Could any organism on earth survive in one of the earth's deserts?
There are thousands of species - plants and animals - that have survived for thousands of years in the deserts.
Why fewer animals live in desert than a rainforest?
There are two main types of desert: hot desert and cold desert (also called tundra).
In the tundra, animals need to be able to stay warm, and therefor there are few or no cold blooded vertebrates. Trees can't even grow in cold deserts because the winter is so cold that the soil stays frozen year round, just a few inches beneath the surface.
In hot deserts, plants are primarily affected by the heat because it increases the rate that water evaporates. However, desert plants are very good at conserving their water. For animals, hot deserts are often so hot, that they simply hide underground until nighttime. For those that don't, it increases how much water loss they have and thus, they need more water (although there are animals, like meerkats, that live in hot deserts and still are active during the day, yet they get all of the water that they need from food).
Clarification:
Tundra and desert are two distinct biomes. While they may share some characteristics, they are different biomes.
Deserts are divided into two general types:
Hot Deserts - such as the Sahara, Arabian Desert, Mojave Desert
Cold Deserts - such as the Atacama, Gobi, Antarctica and Great Basin
Some cold deserts may get quite hot during the summer but winter temperatures can be very cold. They are sometimes called 'cold winter deserts.' Hot deserts usually stay mild in the winter but summers are very hot. Some cold deserts are classified as such because of their geographic location near the sea that tends to moderate their temperatures. Both the Atacama and the Namib Deserts are generally mild the year round with no temperature extremes. Sometimes they are labeled as 'cool coastal deserts.'
What are the small ponds in deserts called?
A pond is called an oasis. This term is also used to refer to water that is near enough to the surface to permit vegetation but is not directly exposed to the air.
Dry desert land by bank of the nile is called?
The Sahara Desert is the desert that is not far from the banks of the Nile. It is the biggest desert in the world, with an area of 9.4 million kilometres squared. It spans many different countries across the entirety of North Africa.
What is the average temperature in the Namib Desert?
Namib which means Vast Place in South Africa is the oldest desert in the world. The desert is now 55 million years in existence.
What 4 latin American countries have the most desert scrub?
Mexico and Argentina have the most desert vegetation.
What desert animal never drinks water?
They can store water in there body. For example: Camels store water in their humps on there back. ---- Actually, camels store fat in their humps. The fat contains sufficient water to provide for the camel's moisture needs, and when the camel drinks, it will drink an amazing amount. Other animals do not need to drink but they do gain their moisture needs from the food they eat. Other mammals burrow deep down into the desert sand to reach the water table.
What countries does the Taklamakan Desert border?
The Taklamakan Desert is located entirely in China.
How many millimeters of rain does the desert receive?
A desert is defined as a region that receives less than 10 inches (250 mm) of rainfall on average per year. Some deserts receive virtually no precipitation for years.
The desert has little humidity and rarely is cloudy. These two factors allow the desert to heat up rapidly during the day and cool off quickly at night. In other biomes humidity and clouds act as a blanket which slows down heating and cooling.
What are some desert plants of the U.S. and Mexico?
The ocotillo sprouts leaves a day or two after a good rain in the desert. It blooms in the late winter.
What is the region of Africa between the desert and the grasslands?
Between the Sahara Desert and the northern edge of the savanna is the Sahel. The Sahel is an arid grassland. However, overgrazing is converting the Sahel into desert.
Is Patagonia a desert a grassland or rainforest area?
Patagonia is a Major Desert. The area of the dessert is 402,700 miles2.
What is the precipition in temperate deserts?
A desert is defined as a region that receives less than 10 inches (250 mm) of precipitation per year on average. Some deserts receive virtually no precipitation for years. It may fall as rain, snow, hail, sleet or grauple.
How many months do fall and spring last in the desert?
Whether an area is or is not dessert does not have any effect on the length of the seasons there. Summer and Winter will cover the same time span in a desert as it does for any other area at the same latitude. What is different is the weather in a desert in the summer and the winter. Because deserts are dry, the humidity is very low and cloud cover is less. This leads to wider temperature swings between daytime and nighttime temperatures. During the summer, the temperatures could be brutally hot during the day and yet drop to uncomfortably cold temperatures at night. During the winter it might be only moderately cold during the day but then drop to brutally cold during the night. Depending on the type of desert, Winter may also be the season with the highest precipitation - although being a desert, getting "more" precipitation may still not amount to very much.
In broad terms, Summer lasts about 3 months and Winter lasts about 3 months in the desert. If you get to extreme northern latitudes or extreme southern latitudes, the effective Summer and Winter seasons (i.e. months with "summer weather" and months with "winter weather") get longer with shorter Spring and Fall in between, but that is a function of the latitude, not the desert environment. In Antarctica is considered a desert with annual precipitation of only 200 mm (8 inches) along the coast and far less inland. Down in Antarctica it gets closer to being effectively 5 months of Summer and 5 months of Winter.
