Compare between hot and cold deserts.
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Answer:
The major difference between hot and cold deserts are:
• The hot deserts grow extreme hot during peak sun time. whereas, the cold deserts have snow and ice on the surface of the ground
• The hot deserts are nearer to the equator. Whereas, the cold deserts are located in extreme southern or northern latitudes. They are known to have extremely cold weather and mildly hot weather.
Deserts are dry lands. The weather is extremely hot during the day and cold at night.
Explanation:
Though we connect deserts with only heat, there are some cold deserts. The largest of hot desert in the world is the Sahara in the northern part of Africa, where temperature reaches as high as 122◦F.
The flora and fauna of a desert include the camels, horses and desert tortoise and some plants like cactus.
Polar deserts or cold deserts are similar to the hot deserts in that they too have very little vegetation. The main form of precipitation is snow here, not rain. Antarctica is the world's largest cold desert where nearly 98% of land is covered by thick ice and the rest 2% is barren rock.