G E T T I N G T O K N O W O U R P L A N E T G E T T I N G T O K N O W O U R P L A N E T GETTING TO KNOW OUR PLANET GETTING TO KNOW OUR PLANET G E T T I N G T O K N O W O U R P L A N E T G E T T I N G T O K N O W O U R P L A N E T G E T T I N G T O K N O W O U R P L A N E T G E T T I N G T O K N O W O U R P L A N E T BY VICKY FRANCHINO SAHARA DESERT C O M M U N I T Y (cid:169) C O N N E C T I O N S GETTING TO KNOW OUR PLANET
ENORMOUS AND DRY Imagine a place where the sun is hot The air is dry There is little else but sand and rocks in every direction This is the Sahara Desert This desert is in North Africa It covers 3 5 million square miles 9 1 million square kilometers That’s huge Most of the United States could fit inside it 4 4 The Sahara Desert stretches across most of Northern Africa
ASK QUESTIONS The Sahara Desert is the world’s largest hot desert Only the cold Arctic and Antarctic deserts are bigger What do you already know about the Sahara Desert What questions do you hope this book will answer 5
