ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Hot and dry, little to no animals
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Hot and mostly dry, some animals
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Dry and Wet season, lots of animals
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Lots of rain, lots of animals
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Detailed explanation-1: -Final answer: Desert climates are hot and dry.
Detailed explanation-2: -The stability of the atmosphere above the desert prevents any convective overturning, thus making rainfall virtually non-existent. As a consequence, the weather tends to be sunny, dry and stable with a minimal chance of rainfall.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Sahara Desert is the world’s largest hot desert and the third largest desert behind Antarctica and the Arctic. Located in North Africa, it covers large sections of the continent-covering 9, 200, 000 square kilometers which is comparable to the are of China or the US!
Detailed explanation-4: -Physiography. The principal topographical features of the Sahara include shallow, seasonally inundated basins (chotts and dayas) and large oasis depressions; extensive gravel-covered plains (serirs or regs); rock-strewn plateaus (hammadas); abrupt mountains; and sand sheets, dunes, and sand seas (ergs).
Detailed explanation-5: -Sahara is the world’s largest desert. The Sahara desert touches eleven countries-Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia and Western Sahara. The Sahara desert is the vast stretches of sand. There are also gravel plains and elevated plantains with a bare rocky surface.