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Gobi Desert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3051 words) |
 | The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the Altay Mountains and the grasslands and steppes of Mongolia on the north, by the Tibetan Plateau to the southwest, and by the North China Plain to the southwest. |
| It consists of the desert basins and low mountains lying between the Gobi Altay range on the north, the Helan Mountains to the southeast, and the Qilian Mountains and northeastern portion of the Tibetan Plateau on the southwest. |
| To the south of the Kuruk-tagh lie the desert of Lop, the desert of Kum-tagh, and the valley of the Bulunzir-gol. |
| The Desert Biome (1501 words) |
| Deserts cover about one fifth of the Earth’s surface and occur where rainfall is less than 50 cm/year. |
| Although most deserts, such as the Sahara of North Africa and the deserts of the southwestern U.S., Mexico, and Australia, occur at low latitudes, another kind of desert, cold deserts, occur in the basin and range area of Utah and Nevada and in parts of western Asia. |
| Desert surfaces receive a little more than twice the solar radiation received by humid regions and lose almost twice as much heat at night. |
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