Introduction of the desert

The Desert

" The Desert "  When we say the word the desert they lead us to the introduction of the desert in all its aspects.
the desert are mainly found around the tropic of Cancer and tropic of Capricorn in Northern and Southern Hemispheres respectively. The common definition of the desert is a region that receives less than 25cm of rain a year on average.
When people think of the desert, the following image comes to their minds : hot and arid land, vast expanses of sand, soil of reddish brown color, a sky of brilliant blue, no or very few plants, cacti, spiny leaves and camel is the only animal that they can think of.

what is a desert

 When we ask what is a desert ? This question leads us to the definition of the desert , So answer of the question "what is a desert " is a definitions of the desert .

Definitions of the term “desert” are neither static nor absolute. All over the world the term “desert” and its foreign-language equivalents are culturally and topographically specific. European words such as “desert,”“desert” and “Wüste” emphasize the sense of abandonment that is the standard Western response to the desert landscape—an idea that is also reflected in the etymology of the name of the Namib Desert in southern Africa— “the place where there is nothing.” Arabic has not one but several words for “desert,” including erg (applied to large areas of sand or “sand seas”) and hammada (applied to stony plains), as well as the more general sahra, from whose plural form—sahara—the world’s largest desert takes its name.