2007-01-12 06:39:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ Egypt
Annual rainfall is less than 50mm/2 in except on the coastal strip 100 to 200 mm/4 to 8 in. per year.
Temp. in summer goes as high as 43 deg Celsuis in south egypt.
Are those reasons good enough? or doesn't seem that to convince you?
2007-01-13 18:41:33 · answer #1 · answered by Kalooka 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
most of the deserts all over the world not only here in egypt, all desert was full of salt water so it was as a big ocean. so u can find some salt lakes in the westeren desert in Egypt, and all pouplation live on the line of the Nile
2007-01-12 09:59:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
if you look at the earth as a big picture you will notice two bands of desert around the globe. hot air from the equator rises and hits the troposphere (I think thats the one) cools and comes back to earth, north and south. where it comes down a desert is created. Egypt is a large land mass but has been reduced to sand by the heat and dry atmosphere. there is just as much water in the air above egypt, just gets evaporated before clouds can form. If you go to the nasa website and do a bit of searching you can find infrared maps to show that thousands of years ago, the country was water and meadows and all that but because of techtonic? plate movement land masses move. At the moment its Egypts turn, thats all folks!!!
2007-01-12 06:49:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because only the parts of it that have water can support life and since most of Egypt have none and is so close to the equator nothing can grow, and so it becomes a desert.
2007-01-12 06:47:47 · answer #4 · answered by Oel Pezlo 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The same reason why Libya is a desert. It situated in the Sahara desert.
2007-01-14 01:25:06 · answer #5 · answered by chersgaz 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it's because people are too lazy to build houses there! if the just thought that if building houses there wouldn't make it a desert anymore it would be a street, or a village!
2007-01-15 02:31:06 · answer #6 · answered by Alice :) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's located in the sahara desert, but the nile runs through it, so though most of it is desert, it doens' have some fertile land along the river.
2007-01-13 05:34:45 · answer #7 · answered by IKB 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because they don't get a lot of rain there, there are no plants to bind the soil, or sand together. Then the wind drives the sand and wears everything down anyway.
2007-01-12 06:44:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's too close to the Equator - it's too hot for anything to grow there, so it's mostly sand.
2007-01-12 06:54:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Ummm ... because there's lots of sand there, I guess.
2007-01-12 06:43:00 · answer #10 · answered by alienaviator 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋