76°FPartly cloudy2InstructionsWhen most people think about a desert, they typically imagine a hot, dry expanse.However, many true deserts, like Antarctica, are extremely cold. The geographical andgeologic criteria for a desert is simple: it is a land area that receives less than 10inches of rain annually. Thus, the vast polar areas of the world are classified asdeserts. The chart below lists the just the top ten deserts in the world by land area.Hide Assignment InformationEscNameAntarcticArcticSaharaArabianGobiPatagonianGreat VictoriaKalahariGreat BasinSyrian1SubmitBFigure 14. The top 10 maior deserts ordered by surface area size. Modified from Geoloav.com.areF1Type of Desert Surface Area5.5 million mi²5.4 million mi² Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia3.5 million mi²Northern AfricaArabian PeninsulaPolarPolarSubtropicalSubtropicalCold WinterCold WinterSubtropicalSubtropicalChina and MongoliaArgentina1 million mi²500,000 mi²260,000 mi²250,000 mi²220,000 mi2²190,000 mi²190,000 mi²AustraliaCold WinterSubtropical@2CancelF2A+#Major Deserts of the World3F3XF4$4South Africa, Botswana, NamibiaUnited StatesSyria, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi ArabiaQ SearchCLocationAntarcticaF5%5LOO L0F66F7&78F8*8WF9 76°FPartly cloudy2InstructionsWhen most people think about a desert, they typically imagine a hot, dry expanse.However, many true deserts, like Antarctica, are extremely cold. The geographical andgeologic criteria for a desert is simple: it is a land area that receives less than 10inches of rain annually. Thus, the vast polar areas of the world are classified asdeserts. The chart below lists the just the top ten deserts in the world by land area.Hide Assignment InformationEscNameAntarcticArcticSaharaArabianGobiPatagonianGreat VictoriaKalahariGreat BasinSyrian1SubmitBFigure 14. The top 10 maior deserts ordered by surface area size. Modified from Geoloav.com.areF1Type of Desert Surface Area5.5 million mi²5.4 million mi² Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia3.5 million mi²Northern AfricaArabian PeninsulaPolarPolarSubtropicalSubtropicalCold WinterCold WinterSubtropicalSubtropicalChina and MongoliaArgentina1 million mi²500,000 mi²260,000 mi²250,000 mi²220,000 mi2²190,000 mi²190,000 mi²AustraliaCold WinterSubtropical@2CancelF2A+#Major Deserts of the World3F3XF4$4South Africa, Botswana, NamibiaUnited StatesSyria, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi ArabiaQ SearchCLocationAntarcticaF5%5LOO L0F66F7&78F8*8WF9

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The Gobi Desert is the fifth-largest desert in the world, covering an area of approximately 500,000…