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The Sahara Is Not The Largest Desert In The World. by secnelly: 4:49am On Aug 12, 2012 |
Have you ever wondered about this? A desert by definition is a landscape or area that receives very minimal amounts of precipitation. The actual measurement to be considered a desert is less than 250 mm per year, or around ten inches, and in fact nearly a third of the entire Earth’s land surface is considered such! The largest areas on Earth which fall into this description and category are actually both polar regions. Antarctica has a surface area of 5.5 million square miles, which makes it over two 2 million square miles larger than the Sahara. In fact, the Sahara is the third largest, behind the arctic region, which consists of parts of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia! Don’t worry, if someone corrects you that the Sahara isn’t the largest desert just specify that it still is the world’s largest Subtropical, or non-polar, desert! Source: http://geology.com/records/largest-desert |
Re: The Sahara Is Not The Largest Desert In The World. by onatisi(m): 6:01am On Aug 12, 2012 |
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