Our planet is rich in fertile soils, endless meadows, majestic forests, rivers and lakes, seas and oceans. However, a significant territory of the Earth is occupied by the deserts of the world. Together, they captured a quarter of the entire land surface, with each year increasing their area.
Their main feature is the lack of closed vegetation cover. The reason for this is high temperatures during the day, low temperatures at night. It is this climatic factor that does not allow representatives of the flora to develop in their great diversity. This applies to sandy, rocky and clay deserts.
There are deserts of the world, the surface of which is covered with a thick layer of ice. This is Antarctica and the Arctic. A characteristic feature of these sites are quite low temperatures throughout the year. Antarctica is the largest in size across the globe. She takes the first place in the list of large deserts. The Arctic has settled in third position.
Deserts in Africa include the Sahara, Namib and Kalahari. The first of them is the most extensive after the icy colossus. This sandy-rocky wasteland with a subtropical climate stretches a gigantic distance, affecting the territories of eleven African countries.
The fauna of the desert is represented by only a few species. In conditions of sharply changing day and night temperatures and in the almost complete absence of any vegetation, camels, snakes, monitor lizards, scorpions survive and feel great here. However, the Sahara can boast of having its own exotic animal: among the sands and rocks there lives a small nimble Fenech, called the "Sahara fox".
Deserts of the world are the most sparsely populated territories of the planet. This is not surprising, because people are attracted by the availability of vital resources, the main of which is water. Therefore, no matter how the desert attracts a person, the absence of important natural wealth makes its existence in such conditions practically impossible.
Many registan have underground waters, sometimes reaching the surface. As a rule, oases are formed in such places. It is around them that life begins to boil. It is worth noting that sometimes these places attract a huge number of not only Bedouins and nomads, but also tourists. For example, the Huacachina oasis, located in the Peruvian Atacama desert, is a small village whose population lives off the coast of a natural lake formed by groundwater. Here, visiting tourists and residents of the nearby town love to relax.
The deserts of the world keep a huge number of secrets and mysteries. However, these gigantic sandy and rocky registers are currently used for industrial and scientific purposes. So, the American Mojave Desert, located in California, is the location of a huge number of solar power plants. Another country, Jordan, boasts the successful use of desert lands for sowing cultivated plants.
