SSC
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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What is one thing both “hot” and “cold” deserts have in common?
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All the land is made of sand
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Underground water filters impurities from the sand.
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There is a dramatic change between night and day temperatures.
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Both get regular predictable rainfall.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Due to a lack of humidity in deserts, the air cannot hold the heat radiated by the sand, which gets heated during the sunny daytime hours. This causes the temperature of deserts to fall rapidly at night.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main difference between hot and cold desert is that the hot desert is battered by a high sun whereas the cold desert has ice and the snow in the ground. A desert defines as a landscape with an extremely low level of precipitation. It receives less than 50 cm of precipitation per year.
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