Desert Map Of World. The Atacama Desert is the driest non-polar desert in the world and the only hot desert to receive less precipitation than polar deserts Polar deserts are characterized by annual precipitation of less than 250 millimeters (or approximately 9.84 inches) and a mean temperature during the warmest month of the year of less than 10°C (50°F)
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Although some definitions of the desert also include areas that are too cold to support vegetation, such as frigid deserts, the world desert map shows the distribution of only those areas that are conventionally termed as hot desert and temperate. Display our World Deserts Map to help students to visualize the deserts of the world and their locations
Deserts Map Of The World Map
World desert map: This map shows the generalized location of Earth's ten largest deserts on the basis of surface area The table at the bottom of this page provides the names, generalized locations, and surface areas of over twenty major deserts Display our World Deserts Map to help students to visualize the deserts of the world and their locations
. There are both hot and cold deserts, classified into semiarid, arid, and extremely arid or rainless deserts based on the total annual precipitation Below you can find a list and a map with the main world's deserts.
. Display our World Deserts Map to help students to visualize the deserts of the world and their locations The Carcross Desert, located in Yukon, Canada is generally considered the smallest desert in the world, with an area of only about 2.5 square kilometers