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Thursday 24 May 2012

Natural Disaster- Droughts

                                      
L.I - we are learning to write explanations

A drought is caused when a large area for a long period of time has a massive shortage of water and sinking motion of air in a high-pressure cell, which results in decreasing relative humidity of the air and little or no precipitation .

During a drought, the land can become starved of nourishment. Usually this happens when a region has regular below normal amount of rainfall. It can cause agriculture, livestock, industry or human population to decrease rapidly. Droughts are a long lasting disaster, and although a drought can be noticed for a short while, the drought damaged area will suffer from terrible destruction and harm the local community.

When there is a drought it is deadly because there is either a lack of water or none, and everyone on earth needs water to survive and to live.During a drought most governments advise the people to drink less water, shower less and  not to wash cars often. When a drought becomes very serious there is a limit to how much water each person may use.You can get fined if you use more water than you're supposed to. In poor countries like Africa, world wide aid is needed to help and feed the people.

There have  been tragic events caused by droughts.  For instance there was a massive drought in the Amazon rain forest. It was during 2010, which had been more severe than the 2005 drought. The levels of water had fallen dramatically and some people say that it was completely dried up.The drought in 2010 had  started in an early austral summer during a tropical climate. The drought had the lowest water levels in half a century.If events like this were to  happen more often, the Amazon rain forest would become a big part of the green house gases. 

1 comment:

  1. you had an awesome speech this year. It enjoyed listening to all the facts about droughts. Great speech and keep up the good work.

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