Map World Deserts

Map World Deserts. names of deserts Polar deserts are characterized by annual precipitation of less than 250 millimeters (or approximately 9.84 inches) and a mean temperature during the warmest month of the year of less than 10°C (50°F) Earth's polar deserts cover nearly 5 million square kilometers of surface.


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The largest desert are in the world the Sahara Desert in North Africa, along with the Kalahari and Namibia deserts in the southern parts of Africa. Deserts cover more than one-fifth of the Earth's land area and are located on every continent

Although some definitions of the desert also include areas that are too cold to support vegetation, such as frigid deserts, the world desert map shows the distribution of only those areas that are conventionally termed as hot desert and temperate. The ice that covers the cold desert is on average 2.45 kilometers (1.5 miles) thick. LARGEST DESERTS IN THE WORLD (location and area in km²) Antarctic Desert (Antarctica): 14,200,000 km²; Arctic Desert (Arctic): 13,900,000 km²; Sahara Desert (Africa): 9,200,000 km²; Great Australian Desert (Australia): 2,700,000 km²

. Hot deserts are mainly found around the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn The Carcross Desert, located in Yukon, Canada is generally considered the smallest desert in the world, with an area of only about 2.5 square kilometers

. World Deserts Map Labeling Differentiated Worksheet The almost total lack of precipitation is the most.