Gobi Desert

A desert is an area of the world that is extremely dry. There is not much rain in the desert and officially a desert is an area that get less than 10 inches of precipitation a year. Deserts do not have to be hot, some of the world’s largest deserts are cold which are located at one of the Earth’s pole or in the cold areas of the world. The Hadley cells process is when a large scale atmospheric convection cell where air rises at the equator and sinks at medium latitude, about 30 degrees north or south. There are 3 steps to the Hadley cells process. The first step is warm air rises this means that hot temperatures around the equator cause the air to heat up and rise. The 2nd is when the warm air is condensed and clouds are form and it starts…

Finally we have reached the great Kublai Khan at his summer palace in Shangdu, or journey is complete. After leaving the affluent town of Kashgar and testing our strength by first crossing through the Taklamakan Desert we spent a few months in Lob resting before crossing the Gobi. While in Lob, I met many many skeptical merchants with lots to say in regards to how hard it is to cross the desert. I heard many stories of terrible hardships that would occur to others when crossing the Gobi…

It is a cold night in March as walk through the Desert of Gobi. It is freezing, and my men need to rest for the night, lest they all die from exhaustion. I always thought deserts where supposed to be hot and warm! I thought all hot was lost until I noticed a large settlement in the distance. I tell my men to get up and that I have found our salvation! We then walk up to the city gates and are greeted by armed guards. The guards ask us what we are doing here. I tell them that we are travelers and…

One of the reasons China is a unique country is because of their gates. These gates represent much more than a simple circular opening in the wall. The One interpretation of the moon gate is that it is complete, representing and celebrating the cohesiveness of the family. This complete circle provides entry to a pathway for the family members to return home to celebrate one another. It also symbolizes birth and renewal. The birth of a new moon becomes the way in which time is marked and the new…

As discussed, the lower latitudes of the Hadley Cell and the ITCZ are humid low pressure areas where moist air is rising upwards from the equator, creating large amounts of precipitation, this is explained by Arbogast (2014). Like deserts, tropical rainforests can often be caused by a rain shadow, however rainforest are found on the opposite side of a mountain range to a desert. Research done by Edward K. Vizy and Kerry H. Cook (2006) explains an example of this in the Amazon Basin in South…

One of the hardest obstacles Santiago faces is deciding to leave his love Fatima and continue on his journey. Fatima is a girl, Santiago meets at the oasis in the desert. She is a woman of the desert and does not fear for the men that go into the desert because if it is meant to be they will return. As Santiago gets ready to leave the oasis and continue on his journey he is troubled with the thought of leaving Fatima, “ His heart was heavy, and he had been melancholy since the previous night. To…

The short movie “The God Must Be Crazy” tells us the intense conflict between popular culture and indigenous culture and people's thinking about morality. The story was beginning in the most treacherous desert—Kalahari. Kalahari is a beautiful place that far away from hustle and bustle city, and the climate in there are also strange. After the short rainy season, the water was drained by the desert in almost two weeks, and then there was no water to drink. People who live in there named Bushmen,…

Wikipedia defines ‘desert’ as a barren area of land where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. Still, man has managed to settle in deserts near to oases and pursue life there. People cross vast expanses of this arid region to reach others places which are more wet and fertile. Travel through a desert is in itself a variant experience similar to a sea voyage or warfare. Because one requires contesting and thriving in unfavourable…

A desolated desert is flat and barren. The parched desert sun sears over any scrap of fauna, with thorns to tell us that they are a danger. The air is arid, with not a hint of moisture, weaving and scratching my pharynx. There is emptiness in the desert, it is full of lifeless and fearful snakes in desire to hiss, slither, and warn you a farewell to your own proceedings. However, I was wrong. Taking the clean air for granted, I did not feel the beauty of the wind blowing and interweaving through…

The Sahara Desert is the largest desert in the world. According to geography. about.com, the desert covers over 3,500,000 square miles. That is about 10% of the African continent. Today the Sahara Desert is one of the driest and hottest places in the world. The average temperature is 86 degrees Fahrenheit and the temperature can rise up to 126 degrees Fahrenheit. The video “Bones of the Sahara” by PBS. The video is about a Paleontologist who discovers human bones in the Sahara Desert and he…