DESERTS

Sahara Desert
• size: 9,400,000 km2
• temperature–
average summer day: 50 ºC
average winter night: 4 ºC
• rainfall: 25 mm / year

Atacama Desert
• size: 105,000 km2
• temperature–
average summer day: 40 ºC
average winter night: –25 ºC
• rainfall: 15 mm / year

Sahara Desert is bigger than Atacama Desert.

Atacama is smaller than Sahara.

Sahara is wetter.

Atacama is drier.

Sahara is hotter.

Atacama is colder.

NAMIB DESERT, NAMIBIA