For population 25 years and over in Fort Lee: 1  High school or higher: 97.9%. 2  Bachelor's degree or higher: 30.2%. 3  Graduate or professional degree: 8.8%. 4  Unemployed: 7.7%. 5  Mean travel time to work (commute): 11.7 minutes.
A desert is a barren area of land where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to the processes of denudation. About one third of the land surface of the world is arid or semi-arid.
Deserts. A desert is a hot area of land that gets very little rainânot more than 200 mm a year. Temperatures during the daytime can get as high as 55Â° C. At night, deserts cool down, sometimes even below 0Â° C. Deserts cover about 20% of the worldâs land.ost deserts lie between 15Â° and 35Â° north and south of the equator. They were created by air that rises over the equator and comes down over the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. All over the world many deserts lie in these regions. 1  Land over the equator becomes very hot.