SSC
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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The Sahara averages around ____ inches of rain per year
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3
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10
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0
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15
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Although precipitation is highly variable, it averages about 3 inches (76 millimetres) per year. Most precipitation falls from December through March. Another maximum occurs in August, characterized by thunderstorms.
Detailed explanation-2: -Deserts get about 250 millimeters (10 inches) of rain per year-the least amount of rain of all of the biomes.
Detailed explanation-3: -"We know that 6, 000 years ago, what is now the Sahara Desert was a rainy place, ‘’ Korty adds. “It has been something of a mystery to understand how the tropical rain belt moved so far north of the equator.
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