LOCATION: Although few animals and plants are adapted to the extremely dry
desert life, the desert is a hot biome. The desert is important because it
covers about a fifth of the earth's surface! There are both hot and cold
deserts. Antarctica is the largest desert in the world, while the Sahara in
Africa is the largest of the hot deserts.
Another type of desert is the coastal desert, for example, the Atacama Desert in Chile of South America. And then there are cold deserts. That sounds pretty silly! If deserts are supposed to be hot, how can there possibly be a cold desert? Well these deserts are in places like Antarctica and Greenland.
Another type of desert is the coastal desert, for example, the Atacama Desert in Chile of South America. And then there are cold deserts. That sounds pretty silly! If deserts are supposed to be hot, how can there possibly be a cold desert? Well these deserts are in places like Antarctica and Greenland.
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The light spots are hot deserts