• Question: Why is the desert hot?

    Asked by harzard456 to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 3 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 3 Jul 2012:

      Deserts are not all hot, they’re just dry. I think that antarctica might be classified as a desert because so little precipitation falls there.
      The equatorial regions of the world are hot because they are the parts of the globe that face directly towards the sun, so they get hit by the most direct heat.

    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 3 Jul 2012:

      Good answer. I agree, Antarctica is a desert because there is so little life there.

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