A DELUGE IF DESERTS
Mostly dry
Erred
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How the humans live there?
Mercator
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The map on straight lines
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Distort the size of the continents
Squeezes closer to the equator and bigger close to the poles
Classic core: Arabian peninsula, Egypt, Iran, Turkey
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Roughly the same size of USA
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3,000 miles
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North Africa
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IT IS BIGGER THEN THE USA
Like 2 USA stuck side by side
Erred
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Extremely
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Basic
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Semi
Full on desert
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Sections of the earth that get less than 250 mm of precipitation per year (10 inches)
Semi arid
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250-500 mm of precipitation per year
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Mediterranean style climates
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Savanna
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Sisley southern Spain southern California
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The Sahel
80% full on desert
Semi arid 90-92%
Some have some deserts some are full deserts
1/3 of the entire land surface is classified as arid or semi-arid
General rule if the a place does not get that number of precipitation then its not going to
support plant life
Measure it out and less than half is covered with any form of vegetation
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