General
This term refers to the wearing away of the Earth’s surface by natural forces such as wind, water, and ice.
What is soil erosion?
Removing trees for farming, charcoal, or construction, which accelerates erosion.
What is Deforestation?
Planting trees where land has been stripped helps restore root systems in this mitigation method.
What is afforestation?
A country, known for steep slopes and deforestation for firewood, suffers severe soil erosion.
What is Haiti?
This type of erosion occurs when rainfall hits the soil surface with enough force to break apart soil particles.
What is water erosion?
This farming practice clears a plot, uses it briefly, then abandons it, causing long-term soil fertility loss.
What is shifting cultivation?
This agricultural method plants crops along the natural curves of slopes instead of straight lines.
What is contour ploughing?
An island that has faced shrinking beaches like Hellshire due to erosion that affects tourism.
What is Jamaica?
This type of erosion is common in bare, dry landscapes where fine particles detach easily.
What is wind erosion?
This is common in Jamaica for obtaining a major mineral source
What is Mining?
Lines of trees planted to slow wind erosion are known as these.
What are shelter belts?
This country’s erosion problems include shifting river courses and hillside landslides.
What is Barbados?
This happens when a glacier drags embedded rocks, scraping the land beneath.
What is glacial erosion?
This method of making charcoal by burning large wooded areas removes vegetation that protects soil.
What is slash and burn?
This system combines tree crops like cocoa or coffee with forest vegetation.
What is agroforestry?
Hurricane Maria triggered over 40,000 landslides in this country.
What is Puerto Rico?
The four stages of soil erosion.
What is splash, sheet, rill and gully erosion?
Cattle feeding on vegetation faster than it can regrow leads to exposed soil in this practice.
What is overgrazing?
Carving a hillside into step-like levels slows runoff and prevents soil loss.
What is terracing?
This Caribbean island has had major road damage over time due to soil erosion.
Antigua