Vol. 19: #41 • The World's Most Interesting Deserts • (10-8-23) Tidbits of Coachella Valley

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Deserts (from page one) fall in the “less than ten inches” category. In fact, the world’s largest desert is on that list. COLD DESERTS

animal species subsist in the Arctic Desert, as well as a large population of Inuit people, who have adapted their lives to the brutal conditions of the Arctic.

1. W s Page 3 m Andes Mountains. The Atacama Desert s receives an average precipitation of just 0.039 inches annually. Some parts of the Atacama have never received rainfall since records began. Experts believe that there was no2.

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• The Antarctic Desert, covering an area of 5.5 • Asia’s Gobi Desert takes its name from the t Mongolian word meaning “waterless place.” Deserts: Turn to page 15 million square miles, is about 1.3 times larger As the world’s sixth-largest desert, it stretches than the European continent, and is itself an f 500,000 square miles across southern entire desert continent. Even though this desert s Mongolia and northern and northeastern receives some precipitation through snowfall and slight drizzles during the warmer months, e check:  Phone Number(s) SpellingChina.  Prices  Hours its annual precip is less than 20 inches. • The Gobi receives an average of 7.6 inches 1. In what desert is Palm Springs, • Although the annual rainfall is not high, the of rain a year. Although the Gobi is classified California located? resentative immediately with changes or corrections. accumulated ice of the Antarctic Desert over as a cold desert, with average winter temps thousands of years contains about 90 percentFax:of 760-320-1630 about -6° F and the frequent occurrence of 2. What is the plural for email: valleybits@msn.com of the entire Earth’s fresh water, permanently -40° F, this desert does have warm summer cactus: Cactuses or frozen in its polar ice sheet. ADVERTISING PROOF temperatures reaching as high as 81°F. Most cacti? of the Gobi’s topography is bare rock, with • The Russian research station Vostok sits on P.M. nal Changes DUE: MON., OCT 2 5:00 12:00 NOON (Answers page 16) about five percent covered by sand dunes that 2.3 miles of ice on the polar plateau and it was ew carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours ADVERTISING PROOF n, Inc.here that the coldest temperature ever recorded are dusted with frost during the winter months. Mon., July 24, 2023 5:00 ct your Tidbits representative immediately changes Final Changes DUE: CLIP AND SAVE onThomas Earth, -128.6°of F, was measuredwith in 1983. Its or corrections. Melanie Property 1. average winter temperature Please review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  P 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630 AdVenture Media, Inc. is -56.2° F. All desert animals have built-in features that

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