Desert ClimateSuch hot. Much sand. Wow.

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World Map

Deserts

Sahara Desert

Sahara Desert

World’s largest hot desert

Northern portion of Africa

Covers 9,000,000 square km

Roughly 10% of the continent

Covers parts of several African nations including Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan and Tunisia

Sahara Desert

Sahara Desert

Sahara Desert

Sahara Desert

Sahara Desert

Sahara Desert

Fun Fact!

The largest desert is actually the Antarctic Desert (13,829,430 square km), followed by the Arctic Desert (13,726,937 square km).

It fulfills the definition of a desert - an annual precipitation of less than 250 millimetres.

Polar deserts are mainly composed of bedrock or gravel plains and snow dunes occur commonly in areas where precipitation is high.

The Dry Valleys of Antarctica are a good example of a polar desert.

Documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7XrabWYHSg

2:42

Biblographyhttp://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/deserts/what/world.html

http://enviro-map.com/sahara-desert-map

http://geography.about.com/od/locateplacesworldwide/a/saharadesert.htm

http://rrwlsahara.blogspot.sg/2012_11_01_archive.html

http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/tss/lsm/analyzed-data.html

http://thehiddenadventureinsahara.weebly.com/weather-patterns.html

http://tourismplacesworld.blogspot.sg/2012/11/sahara-desert.html

Biblography

http://travelandtourismtoday.blogspot.sg/2011/05/sahara-desert-hottest-desert-in-world.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deserts_by_area

http://www.ask.com/question/what-is-a-polar-desert

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/4759535950/