Deserts

It is known as the green anaconda measuring to 25 feet and weighs 500 pounds.

However, anacondas live in the rainforest and not in the desert. There are several species of python that do live in the desert and their lengths are 15-20 feet.

The Sahel is a transition zone below the Sahara. It is a semiarid region. It has been rapidly become part of the Sahara due to a process called desertification.

There are no semiarid deserts. Deserts are arid. Grasslands are semiarid but they are not deserts.

The Antarctician desert is a cold place in Antarctica with no water on the surface. It is the biggest desert in the world. It has a totally different temperature to other deserts, for it is cold all year round. The Antarctician Desert is bigger than the United States.

There are over two dozen major deserts in many areas of the world, For a list of these major deserts as well as their locations, click on this link.

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Apache

Tribal Origin: Apachean Family

Also known as: ápachu, means 'enemy'

Native Name: N'de, Dĭnë, Tĭnde and Inde, means 'people'

Home Territories: Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and the

Great Plains

Language: Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Plains Apache, Mescalero and Western Apache

Enemies: Spanish, Mexicans and Americans

Point of Interest: Were known as great warriors and intelligent tacticians in battles

Comanche

Tribal Origin: Shoshone

Native Name: Numunuu, means 'the People'

Home Territories: New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas

Language: Comanche

Alliances: Apache and Kiowa

Enemies: American settlers at times

Point of Interest: Known for attacking on nights with a full moon and for their skills of fighting while on horseback

Havasupai

Tribal Origin: Yuman

Native Name: Havasupai, means 'blue or green water people'

Home Territories: Arizona

Language: Havasupai

Alliances: Hopi

Point of Interest: Generally, a very peaceful tribe. Mail is still delivered via mule

Hopi

Tribal Origin: Siouan Family

Also known as: Hopita, means 'peaceful ones'

Native Name: Hópitu-shínumu, means 'the peaceful people'

Home Territories: Arizona

Language: Hopi

Alliances: Navaho

Point of Interest: Have lived in America for many centuries. The Hopi have strong sense of more character and their religion is one of anti-war

Jemez

Tribal Origin: Pueblo

Native Name: Hä'-mish

Home Territories: New Mexico

Enemies: Spanish

Point of Interest: Typically lived in pueblos

Kiowa

Tribal Origin: Kiowa

Native Name: Kgoy-goo, means 'principle people'

Home Territories: Colorado and Oklahoma

Language: Kiowa

Alliances: Comanches and the Apaches

Enemies: Cheyennes

Point of Interest: Nomatic tribe who survived by hunting buffalo and eating vegetables

Kiowa Apache

Tribal Origin: Athapascan tribe

Also known as: Gattacka

Native Name: Na-ishañ-dina, means 'our people'

Home Territories: Wyoming

Language: Southern Athabaskan

Alliances: Arapaho and Cheyenne

Enemies: Kiowa

Point of Interest: The measles nearly wiped them out

Lipan

Tribal Origin: Apache

Native Name: Náizhan, means 'ours'

Home Territories: New Mexico, Texas and Mexico

Language: Apache

Enemies: Comanche, Mescalero and Spanish

Point of Interest: Were known to cause a lot of trouble in Mexico

Maricopa

Tribal Origin: Yuman

Also known as: Piipaash

Native Name: Hasínai, means 'people'

Home Territories: Gulf of California and Arizona

Language: Maricopa

Alliances: Pima

Point of Interest: Known for pottery

Mohave

Tribal Origin: Yuman

Also known as: Mojave

Native Name: Aha Macave, means 'people who live along the river'

Home Territories: Arizona, California and Nevada

Language: Mojave

Enemies: United States

Point of Interest: Instead of canoes, they were known to make rafts from balsa

Navaho

Tribal Origin: Southern Athabascan

Also known as: Diné or Navajo, means 'the people'

Native Name: Navajo

Home Territories: Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico

Language: Navajo

Enemies: United States

Point of Interest: Largest tribe in the United States today

Paiute

Tribal Origin: Uto-Aztecan family

Also known as: Piute, possibly means 'Water Ute'

Home Territories: Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah

Language: Paiute

Enemies: Navajo and Utes

Point of Interest: Were sold into slavery by the Navajo and Utes

Papago

Tribal Origin: Pima

Native Name: Tohono O'odham, means 'People of the Desert'

Home Territories: Arizona and Mexico

Language: O'odham

Enemies: Apaches

Point of Interest: Held onto their traditions even through attempts to be assimilated into American society

Panamint

Tribal Origin: Shoshonean Tribe

Point of Interest: Found living in mining towns in the late 1800s

Pecos

Tribal Origin: Pecos

Native Name: P'e'-a-ku'

Home Territories: New Mexico

Enemies: Comanche and Querecho

Point of Interest: Only 25 known blood-decendents living today

Pima

Tribal Origin: O'odham

Also known as: Akimel O'odham, means 'river people'

Native Name: Pima, means 'I don't know'

Home Territories: Arizona

Language: O'odham

Point of Interest: Known for being good farmers and for setting up irrigation systems

Pueblo

Pueblo Tribes: Jemez, Keresan Pueblos, Piro Pueblos, Tewa Pueblos, Tiwa Pueblos, Zuni, and Hopi

Home Territories: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada and Texas

Language: Multiple

Point of Interest: Lived in stone houses and cliff dwellings

Shoshoni

Tribal Origin: Shoshoni

Also known as: Shǐshǐnoats-hitäneo, means 'snake people'

Native Name: Shoshoni, means 'the grass people'

Home Territories: California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming

Language: Shoshoni

Enemies: Blackfoot, Crow, Lakota, Cheyennes and Arapahos

Point of Interest: Lived off of Buffalo, fish and rabits

Sobaipuri

Tribal Origin: O'odham

Home Territories: Arizona

Point of Interest: Disappeared in the 1400s

Tewa

Tribal Origin: Tanoan family

Also known as: Tano

Native Name: Tewa, means 'moccasins'

Home Territories: Arizona and New Mexico

Language: Tewa

Point of Interest: Developed their own written language

Ute

Tribal Origin: Shoshonean Tribe

Native Name: Ute, means 'people on the bank'

Ute Tribes: Capote, Cumumba, Kapote, Moache, Moanumts, Pah Vant, Parianuche, San Pitch, Sheberetch, Taviwach, Timanogots, Tumpanawach, Uinta, Uncompahgre, White River, Weeminuche and Yamperika

Home Territories: Colorado, New Mexico and Utah

Language: Ute

Point of Interest: Known for the exquisite beadwork

Walapai

Tribal Origin: Yuman

Native Name: Hualapai, means 'people of the tall pine'

Home Territories: Arizona

Language: Hualapai

Yavapai

Tribal Origin: Possibly Yuman

Native Name: Yavapai, means 'people of the sun'

Home Territories: Arizona

Language: Yavapai

Alliances: Western Apache

Enemies: Maricopa and Pima

Point of Interest: Their form of attack was generally one of attack and retreat

Yuma

Tribal Origin: Yuman

Also known as: Quechan

Native Name: K-wichhna

Home Territories: Arizona

Language: Quechan

Enemies: United States

Point of Interest: Were known for cultivating pumpkins, melons, corn and beans

Zuni

Tribal Origin: Pueblos

Native Name: A'shiwi, means 'the flesh'

Home Territories: New Mexico

Language: Zuni

Point of Interest: Known to be an extremely peaceful tribe who lived off the land

A spring in a desert is usually responsible for the formation of an oasis.

Deserts generally have little cloud cover and humidity that would absorb some of the sun's radiation. Therefore, more radiation reaches the surface of the desert and this heats the air above it. Also, many deserts are not too far north or south of the equator and, therefore, receive more direct solar radiation.

There are forests in Canada, many forests. However, there are no true deserts.

Using 9,000,000 sq. km as the area of the Sahara (from Wikipedia), if the Sahara were a country, it would rank just between Brasil (8,514,877 sq. km) and China (9,598,094 sq. km). The United States is the next larger country at 9,629,091 sq. km. So no country is the "same" size as the Sahara based on these figures.

The hottest air temperature ever reliably recorded in a desert was 134 degrees F in Death Valley of the Mojave Desert in California on July 10, 1913. An even warmer temperature of 136 degrees was recorded a few years later in Libya but that has been discounted as inaccurate as it was not properly measured by untrained Italian soldiers. A recent ground temperature was measured by a satellite in Iran that was even hotter but the ground temperature does not reflect the temperature of the air above it. Anyone who has walked barefoot over an asphalt parking lot in summer can attest to that.

The coldest temperature of -129 degrees F. was recorded in 1983 in the Antarctic Desert.
Some say that number was surpassed in 2010 when a satellite recorded a temperature of -135.8F.

The Aborigines eat whatever is abundant at the time. Even in the desert, there are a wide selection of plants like macadamia nuts and lemon myrtle to eat and they find water on the leaves of plants or by digging for it underground.

Yes! I was in 6th or 7th grade and we were all sent home early from school becuase of the snow. It snowed throughout the desert. Snow piled up in front of businesses along hwy 111. It was around the year 1979 +/-.

The Great Victoria Desert is in Australia.

There are 24 major desert regions of the world and each as its own climate statistics. If you provide a specific location we can provide a specific answer. As a general rule, a desert receives less than 10 inches (250 mm) of rainfall on average per year. There is no single figure that encompasses all the deserts of the world.

Desert and grassland are quite different. Deserts are characterised by very low annual precipitation, whereas grasslands do receive healthy seasonal rainfall. More abundant species of plants and animals can be found in grasslands, whereas the desert flora and fauna are more limited, with special adaptations that allow them to live in such extreme climates.

Yes, about one third (33-35%) of the earth's land surface is covered by deserts.

Plants and animals are the biotic (living) factors and soil, sand, gravel, rocks and water are abiotic (nonliving) factors.

There are 26 major desert areas in the world and each has its own climate data. There is no single answer to this questions as there are hot deserts and cool deserts as well as a polar desert and cold winter deserts.

Lack of humidity in the air. The air contains much fewer water molecules that block out solar radiation than many non desert environments. Desert surfaces get more than twice the level of solar radiation than average surfaces because of that lack of moisture in the air.

Basically, without water in the air there is little to retain the heat energy from the sun after it has set.

Also, lack of clouds. Clouds block solar rays. Without them you receive more solar rays and all the things that come along with them (heat, etc.)

Millet is grown in the Sahel because it is a drought-tolerant crop. The Sahel runs the length of Africa as the transition zone between the Sahara and the fertile jungles of southern Africa.

All of the continent is considered a desert, because of its low humidity and lack of precipitation.

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