Question

what is desert? explain.​

Answer 1

A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to the processes of denudation.

Answer 2

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what is desert? explain.

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Approximately one-third of the Earth's land surface is desert, arid land with meager rainfall that supports only sparse vegetation and a limited population of people and animals. Deserts are natural laboratories in which to study the interactions of wind and sometimes water on the arid surfaces of planets.

Examples:- The Sahara of North Africa and the deserts of the southwestern U.S., Mexico, and Australia.

Extra Information ⤵️

• Canada's Carcross Desert:- is said to be the world's smallest desert, just 600 m wide.

• Antarctic desert:-This statistic displays the ten largest deserts on earth. The largest desert on earth is the Antarctic desert, covering the continent of Antarctica

• China has the highest number of deserts (13), followed by Pakistan (11) and Kazakhstan (10).