Weather Homework: Weather and climate

Deserts

Q1. What is a desert? A desert is a region that has a shortage of water. Here only specialized plants grow.

Q2. There is a Desert in Africa called the Sahara this is a Desert near the equator so that Desert is equatorial.

Q3. The air in country's near the equator has air that settles downward, the country lies in subtropical land the air becomes warmer and drier as it falls, so the land remains dry with little rainfall

Q4. Deserts further away from the equator are also dry, because they are far from the Sea, and have Mountains in between the Desert. These Mountain barriers catch rainfall on their windward side while the leeward region remains dry. This is known as the "rainshadow" effect.

Q5 Deserts are very different two types are sand deserts which build quite a few sand dunes, and there are rock deserts consist mainly of bare rock.

Q6. Most Desert have some sort of animal and plant life. Desert plants may little or no leave surface or they have thorns and spines e.g Cactus is a desert plant. The animals must be able to go long periods without water. They get their liquid from plants or night dew e.g a camel is a animal that lives and, survives the desert.

remain5 The arabic dessert in Africa, The white dessert in Egypt, Betpak-Dala in Asia the Nubian Desert in Sudan and Saudi Arabia in Asia Saudi

by Abby