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Howard Rice

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Table of Contents

Where Are You? ..............................

What Is a Desert? .............................

Where Are They? ...........................

How Are They Formed? ...............

Can Anything Live There? ...........

Glossary ........................................... 28

Where Are You?

Look around. The sky is big

and blue. The ground is dry and

bare. Hills of sand cross the land as

far as you can see. In the distance,

a string of camels walks slowly in

the rising sun. It is hot and getting

hotter.

Where are you?

You are in a desert , of course!

What Is a Desert?

A desert is an area of land with

very little rain and, most of the time,

high temperatures during the day.

In a desert, there is less than

inches of rain each year. The

ground is usually dry.

Whenever it rains in a desert,

the heat of the sun dries up most of

the water. This is called evaporation

(ih-vap-uh-REY-shuhn).

Evaporation happens when water

changes from a liquid and becomes

vapor in the air.

precipitation

evaporation

condensation

evaporation

groundwater runoff

snow melt

surface runoff

One reason for evaporation

is the high temperatures. Desert

nights can be cold because during

the night the ground releases its

heat. But during the day, the

ground soaks up the heat.

condensation

evaporation

The temperature in the desert

can reach as high as

F!

How hot is that? Most people

are comfortable at about

F.

Deserts can get almost twice that hot!

Where Are They?

Most of the

deserts are in two

areas called the

Tropic of Cancer

and the Tropic of

Capricorn . Look at

the map to find the

tropics. The map

also shows where

you can find the

worlds great deserts.

Equator

Tropic of Capricorn

Tropic of Cancer

Deserts of the World

North American

Atacama

Patagonian

Sahara

Namib

Kalahari

Arabian

Turkestan

Iranian

Thar

Taklamakan-Gobi

Australian

Equator

Tropic of Capricorn

Tropic of Cancer

Deserts of the World

North American

Atacama

Patagonian

Sahara

Namib

Kalahari

Arabian

Turkestan

Iranian

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