Through the process of desertification, the Sahara is growing rapidly each year.
Some scientists classify deserts are either hot or cold, others break that down further: Subtropical Desert - Sahara, Great Victorian, Chihuahuan, etc. Cool Coastal Desert - Namib, Atacama, etc. Cold Winter Desert - Gobi, Great Basin, Antarctica, etc.
The Mojave receives less than 10 inches of rain on average per year and the evaporation rate exceeds the precipitation rate. Both are descriptions of a desert.
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Through the process of desertification, the Sahara is growing rapidly each year.
The Sahara is currently expanding south at a rate of up to 48 kilometers per year.
The desert is moving south at 2 feet per day. At that rate, it takes more than seven years to move one mile.
The Sahara Desert is expanding. This means it is encroaching upon otherwise good, fertile land. Poor agricultural practices along its southern borders have resulted in increased desertification, so grassland to the south of the Sahara is disappearing at the rate of 50 km every year.
The Sahara could almost cover the United States. At the rate it is expanding it will not be long before it may be able to totally cover the country.
The Sahara Desert is the largest hot desert,The largest desert is actually Antarctica.No.The Sahara is the largest hot desert covering 3.6 million square miles, a bit larger than the Australian Outback, but ranks second in size to the Antarctic Desert which is the largest desert in the world (and the largest cold desert), covering 5.5 million square miles.trueNo.The world's largest desert is Antarctica since a desert is defined as an area receiving less than 250 mm or 10 inches of precipitation per year. The Antarctic desert covers 13.9 million square kilometres, or almost 5.5 million square miles.However, when most people think of deserts the implied thought is that they are sand based not ice based. It is also not known as the Antarctica Desert because it is not referred to as such in the text books.The Sahara is the largest hot desert. It is in northern Africa and occupies over a quarter of Africa, covering 9.1 million square kilometres, or 3.5 million square miles. It is generally more recognised as a desert because its rate of evaporation exceeds the rate of precipitation, whereas the Antarctic has a very low evaporation rate.The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world covering 3.6 milllion square miles, but Antarictica covers 5.5 million square miles and has less than 10 inches of precipitation per year. therefore Antarctica is the largest desert in the world.No, Antarctica is the largest desert in the world. The Sahara is the largest hot desert and the second largest desert.
9,400,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi)3.3 million square miles or around 25% of africa.
Yes: this process is called "desertification". The Sahara Desert is encroaching south upon the Sahel. The catalyst to this was the drought which occurred in Africa from 1968 to 1973, and the Sahel continues to be drought-prone, which in turn increases desertification. The Sahara desert is estimated to be growing at a rate of 0.6 km every year.
The boundaries of the Sahara are the Atlantic Ocean on the west, the Atlas Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea on the north, the Red Sea and Egypt on the east, and the Sudan and the valley of the Niger River on the south.The Sahara Desert is (very roughly) about 4800km (roughly East-West), by 1800km (roughly North South)
The Sahara Desert is currently slightly smaller than the contiguous United States. If desertification continues at the current rate it will soon be larger, however.
The Sahara in northern Africa is almost as large as the contiguous 48 states. At the rate it is growing it may soon overtake the U.S. in size.
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