{"id":40244,"date":"2020-10-08T17:21:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=40244"},"modified":"2020-10-08T17:21:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:21:52","slug":"geography-deserts-part-1-worlds-two-largest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-deserts-part-1-worlds-two-largest\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography: deserts, part 1: world&#8217;s two largest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about deserts: the tutor mentions Earth&#8217;s two largest ones.<\/h2>\n<p>As I mention in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-what-is-a-desert\/\">post from October 1<\/a>, a desert is either 1) a place that releases more moisture than it receives, or 2) a place with less than 10 inches of rain. The point is that a desert is dry, but not necessarily anything else.<\/p>\n<p>The Antarctic and the Arctic deserts are the two world&#8217;s largest, with the Antarctic bigger by a sliver. The third largest is the Sahara, around 64% the size of the Antarctic.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geology.com\/records\/largest-desert.shtml\">geology.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 deserts: the tutor mentions Earth&#8217;s two largest ones. As I mention in my post from October 1, a desert is either 1) a place that releases more moisture than it receives, or 2) a place with less than &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-deserts-part-1-worlds-two-largest\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geography: deserts, part 1: world&#8217;s two largest<\/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-40244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40244","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=40244"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40248,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40244\/revisions\/40248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}