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Sahara Desert
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world. It covers the northern portion of the continent of Africa.
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What are the affects of the Sahel Desert after desertification?
The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara desert to the north and the Sudanian Savanna to the south. It is arid land but not a true desert.
The desert is moving south at 2 feet per day. At that rate, it takes more than seven years to move one mile.
Is the sahara the driest desert?
The Atacama Desert (Chile) is the driest desert in the world and Sahara is the largest hot desert with a span of 9,000,000 square kilometres (3,500,000 sq. mi.).
The Atacama Desert (Chile) is the driest desert in the world, according to NASA, National Geographic and many other publications.
What is a the animals name in the Sahara desert?
Anubis baboon
Barbary sheep
Barn owl
Brown-necked and fan-tailed ravens
Cape hare
Common jackal
Dama deer
desert eagle
Desert hedgehog
Dorcas gazelle
Dromedary (single-humped camel)
Gerbil
Guinea fowl
Jerboa
Libyan striped weasel
Lizards, e.g. skink, chameleon
Nubian bustards
Rattlesnake
Sand fox
Sand lark
Oryx Sand lark
Scorpion Raptor
Rattlesnake
Sand fox
Sand lark
Scorpion
Secretary bird
Slender mongoose
Snake, e.g. cobra, viper
Spotted hyena
Ostrich
Pale crag martin
Why is the bighorn sheep important to the Sahara Desert?
Bighorn sheep live in North America, not in the Sahara.
Why is the Sahara actually the 3rd largest desert in the world?
The Sahara is actually the second largest desert in the world, surpassed only by Antarctica.
What types of plants grow in the dry climate like safarri desert?
Do you mean the Sahara Desert? There is no Safarri Desert.
How many cacti live in the Sahara Desert?
No cacti grow naturally in the Sahara. Cacti are natives of the Americas, not Africa.
People in the Sahara desert correspond to the landform climate and natural vegetation. They eat a lot less and when they do it is usually a succulent.
What desert mammals can fly in the Sahara Desert?
bats are found in various parts of the Sahara Desert
The Sahara Desert is located on which continent?
The Sahara Desert is found in the northern portions of Africa, above the equator.
What desert is not considered part of Sahara?
Neither the Kalahari nor the Namib Deserts are part of the Sahara.
Which way is the Sahara desert spreading?
The Sahara is spreading south. It is covering the Sahel area. These problems on the Sahara spreading in impossible to stop unless scientists discover how.....
Weather patterns south of the Sahara Desert?
The south of Sahara is one of the hottest parts of the world. It experience very high temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius with very little precipitation.
How does the sand from the Sahara desert get to Puerto Rico?
if you really think about it....its obviously the winds Answer: Westerly winds from the region around Cape Verde can carry Saharan sand to Puerto Rico
The first to do so from west to east were Michael Asher and Mariantonietta Peru, in 1986. The first north to south trek was made by Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, a journey that took from 1865 to 1867. None of the crossings were made entirely on foot; the enormous distance and very rough terrain would make that prohibitive. Rohlfs traveled mostly on camel and thatalready took two years; the fairly recent west to east trek was made partly on foot, partly on camel.
No-one has ever done it completely solo without backup, because that would amount to suicide. The food and drink alone that you would have to take along, apart from all the other necessary equipment would make it it totally impossible.
Why did the three great trading kingdom ls develop along the edge of the Sahara?
it was because along sahara there was alot of good like salt, gold, silver ect
What sort of challenges are in the Sahara desert people could do?
THe sort of challagenges that are in the desert is... I do not know sorry oh wait go to a different website if you want to know ok stupid people these days
