does anyone know any united states desert facts?
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The United States has several large deserts.  The main ones are the Mojave, the Great Basin, the Chihuahuan and the Sonoran.  Each on has differnt types of plant and animal life that differentiate them from the others.  There are far too many facts to mention about deserts without knowing exactly what you are looking for so I am going to post a source for more info.
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Here are some web sites that might help:\n\nhttp://www.sunsetcities.com/hoover-dam.html\nhttp://www.water-ed.org/coloradoriver.asp\nhttp://ag.arizona.edu/AZWATER/arroyo/101comm.html\nhttp://www.kaibab.org/misc/gc_coriv.htm
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I don't agree. The desert is more than sand. it's a whole enviroment.\n\nHe may wants to say that size doesn't matter. ofcourse a handful of sand is a desert to bacteria!
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Sort of... this is partially true.  As one of the largest water sources in the desert southwest, the Colorado River is one of the most fought-over rivers in the world.  After much legal fighting and arguement, the majority of the water in the lower part of the river was divided up between Arizona, Nevada, Utah or California with the Colorado River Compact of 1922.  \n\nThe agreement was amended in 1944 to ensure that Mexico would receive a minimum of about 1.4 million acre feet (about a 10th of the flow of the lower river).  However, by the time it gets to the border, it has been so drained (and picked up so much mineral run-off from farmland) that the saline and mineral levels are far too high to use even for irrigation.  As a result, the US has built a de-salinazation plant that processes all of the water at the border and sends it on to Mexico via canals.  By that point, it is really no longer a river in any real sense of the word and (except during floods) none of the water ever actually makes it to the Gulf of California anymore.
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Check with Arizona State park service. good luck
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FALSE! actually, About one-fifth of Earth's land surface is desert. to that's 20%. : )\n\ntry this link if your not convince. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert
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The Sahara desert is the worlds largest desert. It reaches from the Atlantic ocean side, to the Red Sea. It is over 5,200 miles long. In total it covers more than 3,500,000 square miles. In the west the Sahara is very rocky with unsettled ground. It has many underground rivers. The central region has more elevation then others. The Libyan desert isn't eastern Sahara. It is very dry. The climate in the Sahara is very dry and hot. It becomes hot during the day, and turns cold at night. It has an average of 8 inches of rain each year. It has a small population of 2 million people due to the little rain fall. \n\nThe Sahara desert covers most of North Africa, one third of the continent. Some areas can be for several years with not one drop of rainfall. They are many wind storms, causing lots of dust and sand to blow everywhere.\n\nBoth the Nile and the Niger rivers cross through the Sahara. They support most of the deserts human population. \n\nThe boundaries of the Sahara are the Atlas mountains and Mediterranean sea on the north. The Atlantic Ocean on the west. The Red Sea and Egypt, and the Sudan and the valley of the Niger River on the south.
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Here is one of the best websites on the deserts of the Southwestern USA, which includes desert life, some geology, and descriptions of the deserts.\nhttp://www.desertusa.com/flow.html\n\nCalifornia has some wondrous deserts, with miles and miles of open wild spaces. The main deserts in California are the Sonoran Desert, the Mojave Desert, and portions of the Great Basin Desert. Other names exist in common usage for some portions of these deserts. \n\nThere is also a list of good books on deserts on the DesertUSA website:\nhttp://www.desertusa.com/web_cart/db/pages/chi.html\n\nTo learn more about what conditions create a desert check out the UC Berkeley website on Desert Biomes at:\nhttp://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/deserts.html\n\nThe USGS is another great resource for information on deserts:\nhttp://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/deserts/
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No, but I learn more about USA!!!!!
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There are many deserts in world however Principal Deserts of the World are 20 odd.\n\nDetails:\n\nDeserts are arid regions, generally receiving less than ten inches of precipitation a year, or regions where the potential evaporation rate is twice as great as the precipitation.\n\nThe world's deserts are divided into four categories. Subtropical deserts are the hottest, with parched terrain and rapid evaporation. Although cool coastal deserts are located within the same latitudes as subtropical deserts, the average temperature is much cooler because of frigid offshore ocean currents. Cold winter deserts are marked by stark temperature differences from season to season, ranging from 100° F (38° C) in the summer to 10° F (–12° C) in the winter. Polar regions are also considered to be deserts because nearly all moisture in these areas is locked up in the form of ice.\nDesertLocationSizeTopography\nSUBTROPICAL DESERTS\nSaharaMorocco, Western Sahara, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia3.5 million sq. mi.70% gravel plains, sand, and dunes. Contrary to popular belief, the desert is only 30% sand. The world's largest nonpolar desert gets its name from the Arabic word Sahra', meaning desert\nArabian Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen1 million sq. mi.Gravel plains, rocky highlands; one-fourth is the Rub al-Khali (“Empty Quarter”), the world's largest expanse of unbroken sand\nKalahari Botswana, South Africa, Namibia220,000 sq. mi.Sand sheets, longitudinal dunes\nAustralian Desert   \n GibsonAustralia (southern portion of the Western Desert)120,000 sq. mi.Sandhills, gravel, grass. These three regions of desert are collectively referred to as the Great Western Desert—otherwise known as “the Outback.” Contains Ayers Rock, or Uluru, one of the world's largest monoliths\n Great SandyAustralia (northern portion of the Western Desert)150,000 sq. mi.\n Great VictoriaAustralia (southernmost portion of the Western Desert)250,000 sq. mi.\n Simpson and\n  Sturt StonyAustralia (eastern half of the continent)56,000 sq. mi. Simpson's straight, parallel sand dunes are the longest in the world—up to 125 mi. Encompasses the Stewart Stony Desert, named for the Australian explorer\nMojave U.S.: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, California54,000 sq. mi.Mountain chains, dry alkaline lake beds, calcium carbonate dunes\nSonoranU.S.: Arizona, California; Mexico120,000 sq. mi.Basins and plains bordered by mountain ridges; home to the Saguaro cactus\nChihuahuanMexico; southwestern U.S.175,000 sq. mi. Shrub desert; largest in North America\nTharIndia, Pakistan175,000 sq. mi.Rocky sand and sand dunes\nCOOL COASTAL DESERTS\nNamibAngola, Namibia, South Africa13,000 sq. mi.Gravel plains\nAtacamaChile54,000 sq. mi.Salt basins, sand, lava; world's driest desert\nCOLD WINTER DESERTS\nGreat BasinU.S.: Nevada, Oregon, Utah190,000 sq. mi.Mountain ridges, valleys, 1% sand dunes\nColorado Plateau\nU.S.: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming130,000 sq. mi.Sedimentary rock, mesas, and plateaus—includes the Grand Canyon and is also called the “Painted Desert” because of the spectacular colors in its rocks and canyons\nPatagonianArgentina260,000 sq. mi.Gravel plains, plateaus, basalt sheets\nKara-Kum\nUzbekistan, Turkmenistan135,000 sq. mi.90% gray layered sand—name means “black sand”\nKyzyl-Kum\nUzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan115,000 sq. mi.Sands, rock—name means “red sand”\nIranianIran100,000 sq. mi.Salt, gravel, rock\nTaklamakanChina105,000 sq. mi.Sand, dunes, gravel\nGobiChina, Mongolia500,000 sq. mi.Stony, sandy soil, steppes (dry grasslands)\nPOLAR\nArcticU.S., Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia5.4 million sq. mi.Snow, glaciers, tundra\nAntarcticAntarctica5.5 million sq. mi.Ice, snow, bedrock
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Try the www.usgs.gov, it is the US geological survery website they have all kinds of information on things like that.  If the info you want isn't there there will probably be a link that you can find for that information.
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Depends on which desert.  I live in Albuquerque NM, which is in a desert.  We have a vast (but shrinking) reserve of water under the ground.\n\nAlso, the largest body of fresh water in the world, Lake Vostok in Antartica is burried under miles of ice in a desert area.
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Two.  Parts of the Mojave Desert and the Sonoran Desert are in California.
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The Sonoran Desert is an arid region covering 120,000 square miles in southwestern Arizona and southeastern California, as well as most of Baja California and the western half of the state of Sonora, Mexico. Subdivisions of this hot, dry region include the Colorado and Yuma deserts. Irrigation has produced many fertile agricultural areas, including the Coachella and Imperial valleys of California. Warm winters attract tourists to Sonora Desert resorts in Palm Springs, California, and Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona.
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http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History/MidEast/04/horton/horton.htm\n\nhope this helps!
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Umm, it's the desert man, how do you think it feels?  It's hot, not humid, with an excess of sun all day long.  All because of the lack of moisture in the air to absorb the direct sunlight.  Letting it come through at full force to cause skin cancer, and bake the highways.  Did you know that at noon you can cook a hamburger on the asphalt?
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Hi, Ishan,\n\nsee below some useful links. One is a news story about China's creeping deserts (BBC link); however, with climate change this is also seriously affecting E. Africa, where one can almost watch the dunes moving.