Amazon Quiz: Which is the hottest desert in the world?
Options:
Namib Desert
Lompoul Desert
The Sahara Desert
Karoo Desert
Answer- The Sahara Desert
The Sahara Desert is the third largest desert in the world after the Arctic and Antarctica. It is also the largest hot desert in the world. It is situated in North Africa and spans a sizable portion of the continent, reaching 9,200,000 square kilometers—an area larger than either China or the US.
The Sahara is the world’s hottest desert and has one of the toughest climatic conditions. The warmest temperature ever recorded was 58°C, while the average yearly temperature is 30°C. In fact, only around an inch of rain falls on the region annually, covering only about half of the Sahara Desert.
Despite the misconception that the Sahara has a year-round warm environment, temperatures drop significantly at night and can even go as low as -6°C due to the absence of humidity. Only a few mountain ranges in the Sahara experience regular snowfall.
In truth, the majority of the Sahara is made up of rocky, desolate plateaus, salt flats, sand dunes, hills, and barren valleys, making it much more than simply a desert of sand. Except for the River Nile, all of the rivers and streams in the Sahara are intermittent.
In the Sahara, there are more than 20 lakes, the majority of them are saltwater ones. The only freshwater lake in the desert is Lake Chad.
Emi Koussi, a volcano in the Chadian Tibesti Mountains, is the highest point in the Sahara at 3,415 metres. The Hoggar Mountains, Tibesti Mountains, Saharan Atlas, Adrar des Iforas, and the Red Sea hills are some of the other mountain ranges in the region.
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