The only true ice desert is Antarctica and no plants grow there except for a few nonvascular plants that survive along the coast where there is no ice and somewhat milder conditions.
The only true ice desert is Antarctica and no plants grow there except for a few nonvascular plants that survive along the coast where there is no ice and somewhat milder conditions.
The Antarctic Desert is a polar or ice desert.
Maine has no true deserts. It does have a small area of barren silt uncovered during the last ice age but it only resembles a desert superficially.
Deserts are hot and rainforests are temperate.
Antarctica is an ice desert and the largest desert in the world.
Desert plants have adapted to the extremes of heat and aridity by using both physical and behavioral mechanisms.
Almost the entire continent of Antarctica is a desert, much of it covered in ice,
By definition, in the desert
Plants in the desert can sustain water and do not need as much of it. Plants in wet climates require much more water than desert plants.
Desert plants carry out photosynthesis as do other plants to produce their own food.
Yes, the Antarctic Desert is a true ice (or polar) desert. Those parts of the Arctic that occur on land are better described as tundra. Much of the Arctic is either open sea or frozen sea ice.