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This desert is sand. The wind blows the sand. It makes sand hills called dunes.	Desserts are next to Tropical Climates. Deserts have very little rain. Most deserts are very hot and very dry. Deserts can be sand, rocks or hard mud. The Saraha is the biggest desert in the world. It is in Africa. There are deserts in North and South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, North India, California in America and Australia.
	The temperature can be 45°C. Some deserts are very cold at night. Strong winds sometimes blow in the desert.
	Less than 25 cm of rain falls in the desert each year. Some years there is no rain.
	There is not enough water for many plants to grow in deserts. Some grass and cacti can live in deserts.

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