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The Driest Place on Earth
By Brandi Waters |
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1 Deserts are some of the driest places on Earth. They receive very little rainfall. They are so dry that most plants cannot survive in them. A desert is defined as a region that receives less than 250 millimeters, or about 10 inches, of precipitation in a year. Most people think of deserts as very hot, sandy places. This can be true, but there are many kinds of deserts. Deserts can be hot or cold. The Sahara Desert in Africa is a hot, sandy desert. Most of the continent of Antarctica is a desert, too. Antarctica is covered in ice and snow, but very little snowfall occurs each year. Temperatures remain quite low, even in the summer. Only a small amount of the continent's ice melts in a given year. |
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