Deserts - Multiple Choice Quiz

The Black Desert and the White Desert are regions of the Sahara in Egypt, and the Red Desert can be found in Wyoming.

The Patagonian Desert, located mostly in Argentina, covers 259,847 square miles, making it the eighth largest in the world. The Great Basin Desert is the largest in the United States at 190,000 square miles.

Rajasthan contains more than 60% of the desert.

The country's Salar de Uyuni has an area of roughly 3,900 square miles.

The Great Sandy Desert is the second largest, followed by the Tanami Desert. The Simpson Desert is the fourth largest and the Gibson is the fifth.

The Atacama borders the Pacific Ocean while the Namib borders the Atlantic. Parts of the Arabian Desert reach the Persian Gulf.

Both the Yumen Pass (the westernmost point of the Han Great Wall and the westernmost Great Wall site) and the Jiayu Pass (the westernmost point of the Ming Great Wall) are located in the Gobi Desert.

The Karakum is located in Turkmenistan, while the Kyzylkum and the Ustyurt Plateau are both shared by Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

The coldest temperature was −89.2 °C, recorded at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica in 1983, while the hottest was 56.7 °C, at Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley in 1913.