ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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Sierra Madre Mountains; high elevation & cold climate
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Amazon Rainforest; hot rainy climate only good for animals
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Atacama Desert:driest place on earth so no farms or work
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Kalahari Desert; too hot and dry to support high population
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Atacama Desert is located in a zone called the “shadow of rain”. This is determined by its geographical location: between the Andes mountain range, which blocks the humid air of the Amazons, and the Coastal mountain range, which interjects between the air currents that come from the Pacific Ocean.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Atacama Desert stretches for 1000 kilometers along the Pacific coast of Chile, and rainfall can be as low as 8 millimeters per year. There’s so little precipitation that there’s very little weathering, so over time the surface has built up a crusty layer of salts, further discouraging life there.
Detailed explanation-3: -Along the west coasts of Peru and Chile, the cold surface waters of the Peru Current bring cold air that cannot carry much moisture. The combined effects of the Peru Current and the central Andes rain shadow have created what is possibly the world’s driest desert, the Atacama of northern Chile.