Category Archives: Driest Desert

What is an oasis?

An oasis is a place in the desert where a spring or well furnishes enough water to allow plants to grow. In the desert it hardly ever rains, so there is very little water and few plants and animals.  But even in the driest desert, you can sometimes see an island of green, where trees …

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Why is a desert dry?

Deserts cover nearly a fifth of the earth’s surface.  We would probably describe a desert as a hot, barren land where it hardly ever rains—a land so dry that few plants can grow on it, and where other forms of life also find it difficult to exits.  The desert we have just described occupies nearly …

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