Is it true that the frigid continent of Antarctica is considered a desert?
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not a desert but a wilderness
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Antarctica is the coldest continent. The lowest temperature ever recorded anywhere on earth, -88.3? C (-126.9? F), was on August 24, 1960, at Vostok Station.
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Yes it is considered a desert. It gets slightly more rainfall than the Sahara Desert, making it the largest desert on earth.
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first off.. there are no eskimos in antartica hehe antartica is much much colder, there are a few scientific labs in antartica, maybe a bit more.. but not much.. very very harsh down there
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Yes , It is covered in snow\nThe South pole is in dh continent of Antarctica so definately it will hav snow\nBoth the poles of the Earth R having snow
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Here are some cool facts...\n\n~Antarctica is actually a desert, receiving about the same precipitation (less than 2 inches a year), as the Sahara Desert. \n\n~Dogs have been banned from Antarctica to protect the seal population. \n\n~If Antarctica were to melt, the sea level would rise over 200 feet. \n\nHere are some links that have more...
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The ice pack has been getting thicker but that has slowed down or stopped.  Antartica is not getting colder, and large pieces of ice are breaking away indicating that it is warming.  The snow pack depends on precipitation, not the temperature, and itself could be a sign of warming.\n\nSome regions of the earth will actually get colder due to global warming (at least for a while), as the cold water from melting ice is carried by ocean currents.
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the coldest temp ever has been recored in Antarctica, -126 F
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There is little precipitation at the Antarctica because of the low temperatures. Cold air does not hold as much moisture as hot air. In the winter for exsample the humidity is lower than in the summer ( humidity is scale of how much moisture is in the air). Moisture in the air rises and settles in the clouds to produce snow or rain. When the temperature stays as cold as in does in Antarctica little moisture is present to create snow or rain. The snow that is on the ground in pictures and movies that you may see has been there for sometime. There is stays so cold that when snow does fall it takes it a long time to melt. I hope this was helpful.
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Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth. The lowest natural temperature ever recorded on Earth was -89.2 °C recorded in 1983 at the Russian Vostok Station in Antarctica. However, cryogenic labs have achieved much lower temperatures using artificial means. In 2003, Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists cooled sodium to about 0.45 nanokelvins (–273.149 999 999 55 °C). Moving away from the Earth, the coldest temperature found in nature is the Boomerang Nebula, at about one kelvin, which is cooler than the cosmic microwave background radiation.
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coldest in antarctica n hottest somewhere in the sahara desert
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Since most geographers consider Australia as its own continent (though some consider it part of a chain of islands known as Indonesia), the real defining limit on what is considered an island can be found with the earth's largest; Greenland is considered the planet's largest island, therefore if it is larger than Greenland, it is a continent.\n\nAlso, if the theory of continental drift is true (and it more than likely is), several of our modern continents, like South America, Africa, and North America, that are connected to others at the present date were once surrounded at all sides by water. Geologists still consider their past forms as continents, so I suppose their opinions could be accepted as experts'.\n\nAlso, according to continental drift, the modern country of India was once its own island that broke free from Antarctica about 120 million years ago, headed northward over the course of about 70 million years, and slammed into modern day Asia, forming the Himalayan Mountains. Geologists consider the colliding country a 'sub-continent'. Being only 1.5 times the size of Greenland, the world's largest island, and considered a sub-continent implies that this is where the state of being anything other than an island begins and being an island ends.
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an ice age increases the coverage of ice on the planet which obviously makes it colder.. but also means that radiation from the sun is reflected back into the atmosphere making it cooler again and perpetuating the ice age. precipitation also decreases, ie it rains and snows less (antartica is the driest continent in the world). wind is produced by air currents which are created by warm air rising in various patterns around the globe, so wind patterns would alter which would also affect the climate. additionally ocean currents would be altered by the increase of ice and colder waters, which would again alter the climates in maritime areas
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One interior region of the Antarctic is known as The Dry Valleys. These valleys have not seen rainfall in over two million years.\n\nOutside of Antractica the driest place is the Atacama Destert in Chile.
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There is more land area inthe south in Antarctica than in the north with the Arctic Ocean.
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"Deserts of Africa"\nThere are 15 differents deserts\non the continent of Africa \nB\nBayuda Desert\nD\nDanakil Desert\nE\nEgyptian Sand Sea\nF\nFarafra, Egypt\nK\nKalahari Desert\n K cont.\nKalansho Sand Sea\nL\nLibyan Desert\nN\nNamib Desert\nNubian Desert\nNyiri Desert\nQ\nQattara Depression\n R\nRebiana Sand Sea\nS\nSahara\nT\nTénéré\nZ\nZaara
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Deserts are generally located in two broad belts either side of the equator. That is because the surface air rises at the equator due to the higher temperatures. As the equatorial air rises it cools and the water condenses out and fall as rain. The cold air then falls back to the surface in those two sub-equatorial belts. The air at this stage is depleted of all moisture, and because the air is falling it creates a high pressure system that prevents rain producing weather systems from developing.\n\nThat is a fairly simplistic summary of some complex weather systems, but it suffices to explain why deserts are located where they are.