THE DESERT – PREFACE

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A desert is an area of the Earth’s surface almost or completely uninhabited, where the land is mostly arid and the vegetation is scarce.

There are three main types of desert:

• Hot desert (can be rocky, gravelly or sandy), the climate of this environment is arid.

• Cold desert or temperate, present in continental regions, is characterized by dryness and considerable temperature excursions annually with hot summers and cold winters; the weather is cold desert.

• Polar desert (or white desert), present in the regions near the poles as Greenland, the Arctic and Antarctica, is characterized by intense cold and perennial expanses of snow and ice; the climate is glacial.

The world’s largest deserts (hots and colds):

(in order of size)

• Antarctica,
• Sahara (maximum temperature: 55 ° C),
• Arabian Desert,
• Gobi (maximum temperature: 45 ° C),
• Kalahari (maximum temperature: 46 ° C),
• Great Victoria Desert,
• Patagonian Desert,
• Syrian Desert,
• Great Basin Desert,
• Chihuahuan Desert,
• Great Sandy Desert,
• Karakum,
• Colorado Plateau,
• Sonoran Desert,
• Kyzyl Kum,
• Simpson Desert or Arunta,
• Taklamakan (maximum temperature: 39 ° C),
  
• Thar Desert,
  
• Gibson Desert,
• Dashti Margo,
• Simpson Desert,
• Atacama (maximum temperature: 19 ° C),
• Mojave Desert,
• Namib Desert (maximum temperature: 31 ° C),
• Dasht-e Kavir,
• Dasht-e Lut.