Question

comparative study of hot and cold deserts along with illustrations

Answer 1

Solution :-

Hot Deserts -

The hot deserts of the world are located between 15° and 30° North or South of the Equator. With extreme temperature present in both day and night, hot deserts are extremely dry. However, these deserts are utterly hot during the daytime but extremely cold at night. The usual temperature reach 43° - 49° Celsius during daytime while it goes down towards - 18° Celsius at night. The annual rainfall does not usually exceed 250 millimeters. Hot deserts can be found in almost all the continents. Sahara, and Kalahari Deserts in Africa, Arabian Desert in Middle East, Great Victorian Desert in Australia, Gobi Desert in Asia and Great Basin Desert in North America are some of the largest and amongst the most known hot deserts.

Cold Deserts - 

Temperate or Cold Deserts are found in temperate regions at higher latitudes of the world. These dry environments are caused by either remoteness from the coast, which results in low atmospheric humidity from a lack of onshore winds, or the presence of high mountains separating the desert from the coast. Cold Deserts are almost lifeless regions with snowing winters during most of the time of year. Out of all the deserts in the world, the Antarctic and the Arctic Deserts are two of the largest in land area covering more than 27,000,000 sq km together. 

Answer 2

The principle contrast among hot and chilly desert is that the hot desert is battered by a high sun though the cool desert has ice and the snow in the ground.

Subsequently, the temperature of the hot deserts is high while the temperature of chilly deserts is low. Cool deserts are frequently sub-separated into Cold and Coastal sorts.

Numerous travelers have settled on homesteads in the Gobi Desert and it was crossed as right on time as the thirteenth century by Genghis Khan.