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Surprise!! The largest desert in the world is Antarctica, at 5,500,00 square miles. [A desert is classified as an area having less than 10 inches of precipitation per year, and precipitation can include rain, fog, and snow.]
Now, if we want to know the world's largest "nonpolar" desert, the answer is the Sahara Desert.
With an area of 3,320,000 square miles, Africa's Sahara Desert is the largest.
The following is a list of the largest deserts of the world, in square miles:
- Sahara: 3,320,000
- Arabia: 900,000
- Gobi: 500,000
- Kalahari: 360,000
- Patagonian: 260,000
- Great Victoria: 250,000
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1. Name the only continent that does not have any deserts.
2. Name the desert in the Bible where Moses received the Ten Commandments.
3. True or false: Deserts are always sandy.
4. Which camel has two humps: the Arabian (dromedary) camel or the Asian (bactrian) camel?
5. Name the largest desert in North America.
6. Name the desert that Marco Polo crossed in the thirteenth century?
7. Which popular British rock-and-roll band from the 1990s has a "desert-related" name?
8. Name the desert that is called the "driest place on Earth" by the U.S. Geological Survey.
9. What is the full name of Lawrence of Arabia?
10. Excluding Antarctica, which continent is the driest on Earth?
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