COLD+DESERTS

== =COLD DESERTS= What is a **Cold** **Desert**? What Are the Plants in a **Cold** **Desert**? = = Cold deserts are also known as polar deserts. Antarctica is the earth's largest cold desert, and the Arctic is the __second__ largest. They are environments that __receive__ less than 10 inches of rain or snow per year and that have extremely cold temperatures year-round---a cold desert never rises above 50 degrees Fahrenheit in the summertime. Most of the Antarctic continent is made up of ice; only about 2 percent of the land mass is barren rock. The type of environment represented by cold deserts is called tundra. This makes for a very harsh environment for plants and animals to survive in, but there are more than you might suspect. Read more: [|Cold Desert Plants and Animals | eHow.com] [|http://www.ehow.com/about_5263593_cold-desert-plants-animals.html#ixzz1vpbpLc8m]
 * Cold** **deserts** are those arid areas where the only precipitation is in the form of snow and the ground is covered in ice __year__ __round__. The largest **cold** **deserts** in the world are the polar areas.
 * Cold** **deserts** are arid regions outside the more famous subtropic **desert** belts and are either far from a coast or separated from the coast by a high mountain __range__. (The polar **deserts** of Antarctic and Arctic latitudes are sometimes called **cold deserts.)**
 * A cold desert is covered in snow and it is a place like antartic and green land and many many more places!**
 * what are the animals in cold dessert**
 * well these are some animals**