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The Atacama Desert is located onSouth American continent, in northern Chile between the Andes Mountains and the Chilean Coast Range that borders the Pacific Ocean. It covers approximately 181,300 ...

The term Oak can apply to any of the several hundred species of deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus native to the Northern hemisphere.

The Antarctic Desert is a region in the eastern portion of Antarctica, on the Indian Ocean side of the continent. It chiefly occupies the Victoria, Wright, and Taylor valleys near ...

Reindeer are animals that come from Scandinavia and Northern Russia. They have wide hooves and antlers and are closely related to deer and caribou. http://boreale.konto.itv.se/bovts ...

The term scalp was first used around the 14th century to define the epidermis which covers the head, out of which hair grows. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scalp http ...

Melville Island is a vast, uninhabited member of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago with an area of 42,149 km² (16,274 sq mi). It is the 33rd largest island ...

Tide pools are rocky pools by oceans that are filled with seawater. Many of these pools exist as separate entities only at low tide.

The littoral zone refers to that part of a sea, lake or river that is close to the shore. In coastal environments the littoral zone extends from the high water ...