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what is the name of the world's biggest desert?
a) kalahari
b) sahara

2007-09-04 21:21:30 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Geography

14 answers

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2007-09-04 21:29:02 · answer #1 · answered by VN-Cop 7 · 0 1

SAHARA The Sahara is word taken from Arabic language, which means "The Great Desert.” It is the world's largest hot desert and second largest desert after Antarctica. At over 9,000,000 square kilometers, (3,500,000 sq mi is larger than the 48 contiguous states. The Sahara defines the borders of North Africa and has a history that may go back as much as 2.5 million years. It considered equivalent to the United States. Climate It always has variation in climate. There you Experienced monsoon due to heat in summer because it received more solar isolation n in summer. You can found oasis in Aghaar Mountains. Temperature It has harshest climate of the world. Its heat ranges to 58 C and 136 F and in winter, it could down to -6 C and 22 F. Sahara is as hot as it was 13000 years ago. People of the region Sahara is the place of Berbers, Greeks, Arabs, and sub-Saharan Africans are living from years. Urban civilization The Garamantes is the old civilization found at the heart of Sahara, now called as wadi-al-ajal in Fazzan, Libya. Archaeologists have found eight major towns and many other important settlements in the Garamantes territory. Domestic animals Dromedaries and goats found in the region of Sahara where nomadic people use dromedaries for transport. Leiurus quinquestriatus, which is 10 cm long, the monitor lizard, the Vipera ammodytes, ostrich, addax the white antelope, and cheetah found in Niger, Mali, and Chad, African silverbill and black- throated fire finch is a bird also found there. Botanical background Abelmoschus,acacia, Acanthopanax, Actinidia, Agave, Allium, Aloe, Arachis, Basella these are all edible plants and shrubs.

2016-05-17 06:38:59 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

Sahara

2007-09-04 21:24:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The Sahara.

2007-09-05 11:59:45 · answer #4 · answered by 3lixir 6 · 0 0

The worlds biggest desert is the SAHARA DESERT which is found at the northern part of Africa extending east from the Atlantic coast to the Nile Valley and south from the Atlas Mountains to the region of the Sudan. It was a region of extensive shallow lakes during the Ice Age...

2007-09-04 22:22:19 · answer #5 · answered by Jasper 1 · 0 1

Strangely enough, it is neither of the ones you mention.

It is the Continent of Antarctica. By all citeria for a desert such as absence of precipitation and absence of plants, Antarctica is by far the largest desert in the world. At 5.4 million square miles (14.4 million square kilometres) it dwarfs the Sahara desert, the next largest, which is only 3.5 million square miles (9 million square kilometres).

2007-09-04 22:34:49 · answer #6 · answered by doshiealan 6 · 1 0

sahara desert

2007-09-05 00:20:47 · answer #7 · answered by moonlight 3 · 0 0

its SAHARA desert.. "The Great Desert", is technically the world's second largest desert after Antarctica. At over 9,000,000 square kilometres (3,500,000 sq mi)..

The Kalahari Desert is a large arid to semi-arid sandy area in southern Kgalagadi Africa extending 900,000 km² (362,500 sq. mi.),...

compare them..

SAHARA (3,500,000 sq mi)..
KALAHARI (362,500 sq. mi.)...

so sahara is the answer to your question

2007-09-05 02:22:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

a) Kalahari - 100,000 square miles

b) Sahara - 3.5 million miles

2007-09-04 21:27:01 · answer #9 · answered by Sal*UK 7 · 0 0

IT IS SAHARA...IF YOU DON'T BELEIVE ME THEN FIND A MAP OR SOMETHING....PEACE OUT

2007-09-04 21:25:42 · answer #10 · answered by slop 1 · 0 1

b) sahara
It stretch across North Africa

2007-09-05 03:41:35 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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