Chapter 1
The driest and hottest extremes
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Chapter 2
Cold deserts and polar plains
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Chapter 3
Bizarre survival and desert life
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Chapter 4
Mysteries and landmarks of the sands
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YOUR GOAL
Master of Secrets of the world's deserts
Ch 1 · The driest and hottest extremes
schopenhauer Earth's Hot and Dry Deserts
Atacama's bone dry, / Lut Desert's burning up, / We're in the extreme!
schopenhauer The Sahara Desert covers 9.2 million square kilometers and continues to expand south, sending nutrient-rich dust across the Atlantic Ocean.
Fun Fact
Atacama's dry soil: The Atacama Desert is so dry that NASA uses its barren landscape to test Mars rovers.
schopenhauer The Namib Desert is the oldest on Earth, featuring massive red dunes that migrate and plunge directly into the Atlantic Ocean.
Glossary
hyperarid (adjective)
Characterized by an extreme lack of water, typically receiving less than 100 millimeters of rainfall annually. Chile's Atacama Desert is a hyperarid region where some weather stations have never recorded any rain.
Characterized by an extreme lack of water, typically receiving less than 100 millimeters of rainfall annually. Chile's Atacama Desert is a hyperarid region where some weather stations have never recorded any rain.
Quiz
Which ocean does the Namib Desert directly meet along the coast of southwestern Africa?
schopenhauer Decode trivia clues about desert oddities to discover the secrets of the world's driest places.
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What essential nutrient does Saharan dust carry across the Atlantic to fertilize the Amazon rainforest?
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Which desert in Iran holds the record for the highest land surface temperature ever measured by satellite?
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What are the massive wind-carved rock ridges found in Iran's Lut Desert called?
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What is the local Spanish term for the dense sea fog harvested for water in Chile's Atacama Desert?
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By roughly what percentage has the Sahara Desert expanded since the year 1920?
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Which Chilean desert is famous for using mesh nets to harvest drinking water from dense sea fog?