Causes/Factors
This cause of desertification involves the over indulgence of grass and other plants.
What is overgrazing?
The death and ill abundance of plants and animals in certain environments/ecosystems due to desertification.
What is the loss of biodiversity?
The physical trait of drying mud in a desert.
What is Mud Cracks?
The upper layer of earth in which plants grow, a black or dark brown material typically consisting of a mixture of organic remains, clay, and rock particles.
What is soil?
This cause of desertification involves the drying out/malnuorishment of soil through planting crops on a certain area of land over and over again.
What is extensive agriculture?
The inabilty to produce and distribute food well due to desertification.
What is Food scarcity?
The climate in which desertification occurs.
What is an Arid Climate?
The process of land degradation in drylands in which biological productivity is lost due to natural processes or induced by human activities whereby fertile areas become increasingly arid.
What is Desertification?
This cause of desertification involves the deprivation of water distribution over an area of land.
What is poor water irrigation?
The increased ability of humans to become ill due to desertification.
What is increased risk of disease?
True or False
Desertification can only occur in a desert?
False.
The soil horizon in which desertification is visible.
What is O and A horizon?
This cause of desertification involves the chopping down of forests and trees leaving the soil unsettled.
What is deforestation?
The malnourishment of humans through their calorie intake due to desertification.
What is a poor diet?
The characteristics of infertile soil.
What is poor in nutrients, dry, and unsettled?
The soil horizon that desertification furthest extends to.
What is B horizon?
This cause of desertification involves the releasing of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
What is climate change?
The increase of food prices due to desertification.
What is the shortage of crops?
The process of breaking down and transporting soil through wind and water.
What is Erosion?
The type of plants that live in desertified ecosystems
What is plants that need little to no water?