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Deserts
Why do people explore deserts?
explorers find things to trade, or new trade routes.
Not much grows in the desert
but underground
there can be salt
oil
gold
precious stones like diamonds
explorers want
learn about the people who live in deserts
some just want an adventure
Place which Archaeologists have found village
under the sand
In 1922
an American explorer, Roy Chapman Andrews
found lots of dinosaur bones
the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
A desert
an area of land where less than 25 centimeters of rain falls
about 30% of the land on Earth is part of a desert
Different types of desert
four types of desert
ways near the equator
near the ocean
near mountains
or inland
All deserts are very dry
they can be hot or cold
Antarctica is a desert
It’s very cold, but it doesn’t snow there very often
largest hot desert -Sahara Desert