ESOL hottest and coldest places on earth

27/02/19, Wednesday

                                                 WEATHER AND CLIMATE

       Death Valley is one of the hottest places on earth, Death Valley has a hot desert climate, with long hot summers. When the sun heats the ground, that heat is then transmitted upward, but the dense below-sea-level-air absorbs some of the heat and then radiates it towards the ground. The Valley is surrounded by mountains while its surface is flat and lacking plants but in spring the flowers bloom here and its really colourful and lively the park is famous for its rare sight of flowers. It is said that the rocks in death valley travel by itself because at night when the playa floods and cold nights freeze the water into a flat layer of ice that then break into huge floating panels as it becomes day, the winds drive the rocks forth across the icy surface, which leave trails in the soft mud below. There is a known animal there called a roadrunner it is less than 2 feet tall and it weighs about 1 pound. It is one of the common species found in Death Valley. The other animals are Desert bighorn sheep, Desert cottontail, Kit fox and Coyotes.

Antarctica is the earth's southernmost continent. It is the coldest, driest and windiest continent, and has the highest average altitude of all continents. The normal annual temperature varies from about −10°C on the Antarctic coast to −60°C at the highest parts of the centre. Even though it's enveloped in ice it holds one of the world's biggest mountain ranges. It holds the southern-most active volcano called Mount Erebus despite the freezing weather it had "Lava Lakes". The animal it holds includes Seals, Whales and Penguins. It also stores a lot of fresh water it holds 70% of the planet's fresh water. Some mountains are concealed under the ice called Gamburtsev Mountains.

The similarities between these two are they are both technically desert. They both have extreme weather ranging from 134 degrees to −89.2 °C both really hot and cold. They both have animals that can adapt to the extreme weather they're having. The difference is that Death valley's weather can go down to normal temperature while Antarctica's weather remains cold.