(a) What is a desert(b) Desert surfaces can be broadly grouped into three categories. Name them. (c) The desert regions of the world are classified...

      

(a) What is a desert
(b) Desert surfaces can be broadly grouped into three categories. Name them.
(c) The desert regions of the world are classified according to the location of the regions. Give the four major categories of the world deserts and for each give an example.

  

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Faith
A desert is an arid land of sparse vegetation

Types of desert surfaces
Sandy deserts
Stony deserts
Rocky deserts

The major categories of deserts
The hot continental interior deserts such as the Sahara desert
Coastal deserts of the western margin of continents such as Namib desert
Mid latitude deserts of continental interiors such as Gobi desert
The ice and snow deserts of Polar lands such as the Antarctica desert

Faimus answered the question on February 7, 2018 at 19:00


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