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Desert

The land where rain does not fall very much with the desert (with the desert to make even) and has more quantity of evaporation than the rainfall.
Because most of the plants do not inhabit, and there is little water, a diurnal range of the temperature is intense.
Therefore, I am not suitable for agriculture, and it is the area where the human residence is difficult.
The desert ground is formed in a rock (mesa, Butte), a stone sand, wadi (a wadi), a salt lake, the oasis where people can inhabit partly.

There is the association from notation called "the desert", too, and the scene that a sandy area opens as far as I generally look around it, and weave a wind-wrought pattern on the sands is good, and it is imaged, but actually there is a variation in Iwahara topography.
There is many it in order of rock Desert, stone Desert, sand Desert in the world.

The factors to form desert are classified as follows.
About each, a difference is seen in the latitude to be distributed over.

In Japan, in the place called desert in the volcano zones of Ooshima, Izu, there is not the area that is classified in the desert although there is it.
The Tottori dune which was very large grit place resembled the topography watched in desert closely, but the precipitation produced it under a temperate humid climate to the last because a plant was hard to grow so that ed it-rich, and ed it-like, sand moved consistently.