More about God’s Amazing World

What Are Deserts Like?

• Deserts are very dry.• Deserts can be very

hot during the day (over 100 degrees).

• Deserts can be very cold at night (below freezing).

• Deserts cover 1/3 of the earth’s surface.

Deserts have little rainfall each year.

World’s Largest Deserts

Name Where is it? How big?

Sahara Northern Africa 3,500,000 sq.mi

Gobi Mongolia-China 1,295,000 sq.mi

Kalahari Southern Africa 225,000 sq. mi.

Chihuahuan U.S./Mexico 175,000 sq. mi.

Great Basin Western U.S. 158,000 sq. mi.

Great Victoria Australia 150,000 sq. mi.

Great Sandy Australia 150,000 sq. mi.

• Arabian• Australian• Chihuahuan• Kalahari• Mojave• Sahara• Sonoran

• Atacama• Gobi• Great Basin• Namib• Iranian

Where Are Deserts Located?

• They are found in bands between 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south.

Desert PlantsBe careful! Some will bite you!

Saguaro Cactus Barrel Cactus Old Man Cactus Prickly Pear

Cactus Dragon Tree Octillo Desert Spoon Boojum Aloe Joshua Tree Yucca

Desert Animalsdo any of these sound scary to You?

• Addax• Cactus wren• Desert lark• Dingo• Fat sand rat• Fennec fox• Gila monster• Great jerboa• Great mouse-tailed bat• Lappet-faced vulture• Sidewinder• Thorny devil

Fun Facts!

Sand dunes can reach 927 feet tall!

13% of the world’s population live in deserts.

No rain fell for over 40 years in the

Atacama Desert in Chile.Sand covers less than 20% of the world’s desert areas.

There are 1200 speciesof plants in the Sahara.

Sahara=8%

of world’s

land area

Now that you Heard about the desert. . .

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about deserts. . . that’s deserts with one s.

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