LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -In fact, the Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth. Some weather stations in the Atacama have never recorded a drop of rain. Rain shadow deserts exist near the leeward slopes of some mountain ranges.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Located in both cold and warm climates across the globe, deserts are defined by their dryness, and life in these areas are adapted to a lack of water and nutrients.

Detailed explanation-4: -The desert biome covers about a fifth of Earth’s land surface, or about 300 million square miles (480 million square kilometers). This makes it the second largest land biome in the world behind forest, which covers about one third of the land surface.