(i) The Chiru or the Tibetan antelope is an endangered
species.
(ii) It is hunted for its wool known as shahtoosh.
(iii) Shahtoosh is light in weight and extremely warm.

In the depressions where underground water reaches the surface, an oasis is formed. People may settle around these water bodies as these areas are fertile and people can grow date palms and other crops.
Sometimes the oasis may be abnormally large. Tafilalet Oasis in Morocco is a large oasis with an area of about 13,000sq.km.

Vegetation in the Sahara desert includes cactus, date palms and acacia.
In some places there are oasis - green islands with date palms surrounding them. Camels, hyenas, jackals, foxes, scorpions, many varieties of snakes and lizards are the prominent animal species living there.

Sahara desert is the largest desert of the world located in North Africa. It has an area of around 8.54 million sq. km.
The Sahara desert touches eleven countries. These are Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia and Western Sahara.
Sahara desert is covered with the vast stretches of sands; gravel plains and elevated plateaus with bare rocky surface. These rocky surfaces may be more than 2500m high at some places.

They wear heavy robes to protect themselves from dust storms and hot winds.

It is beacause in the deserts there is little rainfall and the temperature is extremely high so lot of evaporation takes place.

The desert areas of the world are characterised by low rainfall, scanty vegetation and extreme temperatures. Depending on the temperatures there can be hot deserts or cold deserts. The people inhabit these lands wherever little water is available to practise agriculture.

The climate of the Sahara desert is scorching hot and parch dry. It has a short rainy season. The sky is cloudless and clear. Here, the moisture evaporates faster than it accumulates. Days are unbelievably hot.

The Sahara desert touches eleven countries. These are Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia and Western Sahara.

Willows, poplars, apples, apricots and walnuts.

They wear heavy robes as protection against dust storms and hot winds.

The gompas, meadows and glaciers, ceremonies and festivities are some of the charms that attract tourists to Ladakh.

The Ladakh desert has extremely cold and dry climate.

The Sahara desert is located in Africa.

The two types of deserts found in the world are
(i) Hot desert
(ii) Cold desert