DK Find Out - Deserts

Deserts are the driest places on Earth. By day, deserts may be baking hot, but at night they can be freezing cold. There are three main types of desert. These are hot deserts, cold deserts, and coastal deserts...

Kids Kiddle - Desert

A desert is an arid (very dry) biome. They get less than 25 cm (9.8 inches) of rainfall a year. Another source defines it as "any region that can have a moisture deficit over the course of a year. In other words, they can have less rainfall in a year than they give up through evaporation"...

National Geographic - Deserts Explained

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet's last remaining areas of total wilderness. Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of Earth's population, actually live in desert regions...