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Deserts have less water primarily due to their low precipitation levels, often receiving less than 10 inches of rain annually. This scarcity is caused by factors such as high evaporation rates, which exceed precipitation, and geographical features that block moisture-laden air from reaching the region. Additionally, deserts often lie in rain shadows or are located in areas of high pressure, further reducing rainfall. These conditions create an arid environment, resulting in the limited availability of water.
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Why is there less population in desert?
Deserts generally have less water to support large populations.
Why rock is weathering reduced in deserts?
moisture is lacking and organic acids are scarce
How much rain does a dessert receive compared to a rainforest?
The desert receives one 20th or less of the amount of water that a rainforest receives. This is because deserts get very little rain.
Why is rock weathering reduced in the desert?
Water causes the greatest amount of weathering, especially flowing water. Water is scarce in deserts.
What is the amount of water the desert can get?
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 rainfall for years.
Why rusting is slower in desert areas?
Deserts have less water and rainfall that speed up oxidation.
Do aligators drink water?
No life can exist without water. However, in one form (free form) or another (bound) but biochemical reaction needs water. some animals need less water while others need relatively more. If we think of plants in deserts(zerophytes) they also take water even less. In the same way animal in deserts(Zerozoites) may need water less or more as they need water for their metabolic process. As a result of metabolic process waste metabolites must produce. How waste can be excreted without water. If water gets out it then must get in to replinish and continue the life process. Now, animals in deserts may not necessarily take water in pure form but may take it bound in food depending its amount on need of the animal.
Do deserts have good water quality?
In many desert areas the water contains a high concentration of minerals dissolved from the soil and may not be safe to drink. In other deserts where the water flows from surrounding mountains the water may be purer with less mineral content. Deserts with springs that form an oasis may have water that is safer to drink.
What is the exact amount of plants in the deserts?
Each undisturbed desert has exactly the number of plants that can be supported with the amount of rain the region receives - nothing less, nothing more.
What are water deprived deserts?
All deserts are water deprived, that's why they are called deserts.
How much water water falls back as rain?
The amount of precipitation that falls around the world may range from less than 0.1 inch per year in some deserts to more than 900 inches per year in the tropics
What do deserts and Antarctica have in common?
there both deserts antarctica is a deserts they both have less precipitation
