Death Valley

Why in news?

• On 16 August 2020 a temperature 54.4 °C was recorded at the automated weather station at Furnace Creek in Death Valley, USA which could be the highest ever recorded in history.

About Death Valley:

• Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert.
• It is one of the hottest places on Earth, along with deserts in the Middle East and the Sahara.
• Death Valley constitutes much of Death Valley National Park and is the principal feature of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve.
• Death Valley also contains salt pans which are remnants of pre historic lakes which evaporated with the desertification of the area.

PRELIMS QUESTION

Death Valley is a region located in:
(a)Russia
(b)United States of America
(c)Libya
(d)Namibia

Answer to prelims question