Sahara+Desert

The Sahara covers over 3.5 million square miles. Covers most of North Africa including:
 * Region of the world**
 * Tunisia
 * Morocco
 * Algeria
 * Libya
 * Egypt
 * West Sahara
 * Mauritania
 * Mali
 * Niger
 * Chad
 * Sudan

The Sahara has two main climates: 1. A dry subtropical climate in the north. 2. A dry tropical climate in the south.
 * Climate**
 * annually high temperature ranges, cold winters, hot summers and two rainy seasons.
 * mild, dry winters, a hot dry season just before the rainy season, and an annual temperature cycle

The rain in the Sahara is less than 10 inches per year.

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 * Map
 * Animals in the Sahara include:**
 * The hyrax
 * The ostrich is a bird that can‘t fly. Have become hard to come by.
 * The monitor lizard
 * Dromedary camels and goats most domesticated animals found in the Sahara.
 * The Saharan cheetah
 * African Silverbill
 * Black-throated Firefinch
 * The addax, a large white antelope is another threatened species.
 * Sand vipers average less than 50 cm in length. Usually can't kill you.
 * The Death stalker scorpion up to 11 cm long.
 * The fennec
 * raptors
 * secretary birds
 * guinea fowl
 * Nubian bustards
 * desert eagle
 * barn owls
 * sand larks
 * pale crag martins
 * brown-necked and fan-tailed ravens


 * Plants in the Sahara include:**
 * various grasses
 * various shrubs
 * various trees
 * halphytes are saline-tolerant plants.
 * doum palm
 * oleander
 * date palm
 * thyme
 * Eragrostis, Panicum, and Aristida are the most common types of grass.

- __**References and Work Sited https://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/africa/exhibit/sahara/more.htm**__**__ http://library.thinkquest.org/16645/the_land/saha_pl.shtml http://library.thinkquest.org/16645/the_land/saha_al.shtml http://library.thinkquest.org/16645/the_land/saha_cl.shtml __** http://library.thinkquest.org/16645/the_land/saha_pf.shtml __ http://www.sahara-desert.net/index.htm __
 * Description**
 * 15% rocky plateaus
 * 15% sand dunes
 * 70% gravel plains
 * The highest part of the desert is at the summit of Mount Koussi, which is 11,204 feet high.
 * The lowest point of the Sahara is 436 feet below sea level, in the Qattera Depression in Egypt.
 * The Sahara's topographical features include shallow basins, large oasis depressions, serirs or regs (gravel-covered plains), plateaus, mountains, sand sheets, dunes and sand seas (ergs).