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Deserts What is a desert? The desert is a land of extremes: extreme heat and extreme dryness; sudden flash floods and cold nights. Because deserts are such a difficult places to live in they often have names likes Death Valley, the empty quarter, and the place from where there is no return.  How dry is a desert? Deserts are usually very, very dry. Even the wettest deserts get less than ten inches of rain a year. In most places, rain falls steadily throughout the year. But in the desert, there may be only a few periods of rains per year with a lot of time between rains. When it does rain, ther