{"id":40209,"date":"2020-10-01T15:37:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T15:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=40209"},"modified":"2020-10-01T15:38:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T15:38:01","slug":"geography-what-is-a-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-what-is-a-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography: what is a desert?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about geography: the tutor begins about deserts with a couple of definitions.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI always believed a desert is place that receives less than 10 inches of rain. A second definition I&#8217;ve read, however, is simply that a desert receives less moisture than evaporates from it.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.org\/encyclopedia\/desert\/#:~:text=Most%20experts%20agree%20that%20a,greatly%20exceeds%20the%20annual%20rainfall.\">nationalgeographic.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/65639\/what-percentage-of-the-earths-land-surface-is-desert\/#:~:text=Seen%20from%20space%2C%20the%20majority,of%20the%20land's%20surface%20area.\">universetoday.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about geography: the tutor begins about deserts with a couple of definitions. I always believed a desert is place that receives less than 10 inches of rain. A second definition I&#8217;ve read, however, is simply that a desert receives &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-what-is-a-desert\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geography: what is a desert?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40210,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40209\/revisions\/40210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}