Question

Land is called ‘desert’ if it gets less than 250mm of rain every year.
One-third of the land on Earth is covered in deserts!
Deserts can be in hot or cold.
The largest hot desert in the world is the Sahara Desert in Africa – it is 9.4 million square kilometres.
One of the largest cold deserts in the world (the Arctic deserts are the largest) is the Gobi Desert in China, which is 1.3 million square kilometres.
Even though deserts don’t get much rain, the desert is a habitat for some plants and animals. Each species has adapted to be able to live in a range of temperatures and without much water.
Temperatures in hot deserts can be up to 40-45°C, and it cools down a lot at nights when the sun

Answer 1

Land is called 'desert' if it gets less than 250mm of rain every year. One-third of the land on Earth is covered in deserts! Deserts can be in hot or cold. The largest hot desert in the world is the Sahara Desert in Africa – it is 9.4 million square kilometres.