AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Both hot and cold deserts have areas of low rainfall. The driest desert areas fall into the hyperarid category, which encompasses 4.2% of the world’s total land area. Rainfall in hyperarid regions seldom is over 100 mm (four inches) per year, is irregular, and sometimes doesn’t fall for several years.

Detailed explanation-2: -Deserts are areas that receive very little precipitation.

Detailed explanation-3: -adjective. an arid place is very dry without many plants because of a lack of rain.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Atacama is the driest place on earth, other than the poles. It receives less than 1 mm of precipitation each year, and some areas haven’t seen a drop of rain in more than 500 years.

Detailed explanation-5: -The driest place on Earth is in Antarctica in an area called the Dry Valleys, which have seen no rain for nearly 2 million years. There is absolutely no precipitation in this region and it makes up a 4800 square kilometer region of almost no water, ice or snow.