the.com/arid zone
Nature's way of saying: bring your own water, I'm not sharing.
means A region so dry that evaporation outpaces rainfall, leaving little water to support dense plant or animal life.
from Straightforward Latin ancestry: 'arid' comes from aridus, meaning 'dry' or 'parched,' itself from arere, 'to be dry.' 'Zone' traces back to Greek zone, originally a 'belt' or 'girdle' — the Greeks pictured the Earth as wrapped in horizontal climate bands, like stripes on a sash. Put them together and you get a literal 'dry belt,' a term geographers started using to map out the planet's thirstiest latitudes.
- rainfall limit
- under 250mm of rain per year
- land coverage
- covers roughly a third of earth
- plant strategy
- roots go deep, leaves go tiny
- classic examples
- sahara, atacama, parts of outback