Sentences with phrase «desert covers an area»

The desert covers an area of around 100,000 square miles.

The Arabian Desert covers an area of approximately 900,000 sq. mi.

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Scaffolding still covers the city's Baroque buildings, the skyline is dominated by cranes, most of the dusty streets are deserted and many areas remain cordoned off.

This region includes the Desert, NorCal and SoCal which covers the geographic area from Hawaii to Arizona and even parts of Mexico.

Biological soil crusts form in open desert areas from a highly specialized community of cyanobacteria, mosses, and lichens that cover up to 70 percent of open spaces.

Desert locusts are a major pest on numerous crops and pastures throughout a vast area of almost 30 million km2 covering Africa north of the equator, the Near East, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent.

And unlike most other border areas between tropical and temperate zones, it is not desert but covered by thick bush.

These areas generate 100 times as much dust as desert covered with vegetation.

On Wednesday, May 16, I spent several hours on a hot bus in a neon desert called Las Vegas with a merry band of British conspiracists during their journey around the Southwest in search of UFOs, aliens, Area 51 and government cover - ups, all for a BBC documentary.

Digby Race of the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation, in Alice Springs and The Australian National University, in Canberra and colleagues from other universities, report that there is great potential for 200,000 people who live in Australia's vast desert area which covers about 3.6 million square kilometers.

When the authors looked at seasonal trends over the same time period, the most notable expansion of the Sahara occurred in summer, resulting in a nearly 16 percent increase in the desert's average seasonal area over the 93 - year span covered by the study.

The researchers simulated an idealized scenario: an Earth with deserts and urban areas completely covered in solar panels.

These places are large maps made up of several smaller interconnected areas, and cover a variety of terrain types such as snowy mountains, volcanoes, deserts, and jungles.

There are eight main worlds to traipse through that cover the usual breadth of geography - there's a lush, grassy area, a desert, and a jungle fraught with poisonous water, among others.

Subtle Sub Vehicle: 1989 Chevy Suburban 2500 Owner: Scott and Julie Paine Location: Phoenix, Arizona Chassis: Stock frame Engine: TBI 350ci V - 8 with cold - air intake kit Drivetrain: TH400 transmission, NP208 T - case, 10 - Bolt front axle, 14 - Bolt rear axle Suspension: 4 - inch Rough Country lift springs at all four corners, sway bar drop brackets, Rough Country shocks Steering: Raised steering arm Brakes: Factory front disc, rear drum Tires / Wheels: 35x12.50 R16 Interco M - 16s on Mickey Thompson Classic II wheels Interior: Custom - covered dash matches paint Favorite off - road area: Desert trails around Black Canyon City, Arizona

Residing beneath the deserts of East Africa (primarily the southern portion of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia) each colony's territory can cover an area as large as six...

Residing beneath the deserts of East Africa (primarily the southern portion of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia) each colony's territory can cover an area as large as six football fields.

A Short History of Saudi Arabia The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia covers an area about the third of the size of the USA, and occupies most of the Arabian peninsula (map), most of which is desert.

Large areas still remain covered in the thick cloud forest giving an insight into how the first explorer's felt arriving at this deserted city.

There are eight main worlds to traipse through that cover the usual breadth of geography - there's a lush, grassy area, a desert, and a jungle fraught with poisonous water, among others.

His notable works include Double Negative (1969 - 70), a pair of trenches in the desert near Overton, Nevada, created by displacing 240,000 tons of rock, and City, an ongoing project in Lincoln County, Nevada, described by critic Michael Kimmelman as «a suite of giant, variously shaped abstract sculptures over an area that covers more than a mile end to end — modern art turned into monumental abstract architecture, with ancient ruins as the model.»

Far more certainly there will be changes in surface reflectivity; changes in snow and ice cover, open water area, regions of desert, vegetation patterns etc..

In the south - western USA the total area covered by deserts may decline by up to 60 % if CO2 - fertilisation effects are realised (Bachelet et al., 2001).

Well drained and rocky substrate there creates a glade ecosystem where sloping ground can encourage the growth of prickly pear cacti and other desert and prairie species such as the collared lizard, Crotaphytus that last covered the whole area around 7,000 years ago in the Hypsithermal Interval, during the Holocene Period, when warming dried out much of the glacial Northern Hemisphere.

Deserts cover about one fifth of the Earth's land area and occur where rainfall is less than 50 cm / year.

As there is not enough water in areas between desert and grassland — where fairy circles occur — for plants to form a continuous cover, individual plants organize themselves in this beehive pattern in order to maximize the little water that they receive.

Deserts will expand, drought will spread, water supplies will evaporate away, rising seas will flood coastal areas and cover island nations, widespread famine will ensue as farms dry up, and heat waves and tropical diseases will threaten out health.

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