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Arid facts for kids
An arid environment is dry. It has a high deficit of rainfall or snow. So there is much less humidity in the air.
This is often due to a combination of high temperatures and few storms that bring rainfall. However, there are cold deserts at the poles and on some mountains.
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Arid regions of the Western United States as mapped in 1893