Question

how are desert plains formed? ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

The standard many college textbooks use to define a desert is : an area receiving less than 10 inches (250 mm) of precipitation per year. But why do these areas get so little precipitation in the first place?

Geographically speaking, most deserts are found on the western sides of continents or—in the case of the Sahara, Arabian, and Gobi deserts and the smaller deserts of Asia—are located far from the coast in the Eurasian interior. They tend to occur under the eastern sides of major subtropical high-pressure cells. These huge wheels of wind spiral clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere in the subtropics over the oceans; however, their behavior affects nearby continents.