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Soil degradation and conservation — Homework
Connect each answer back to the specific mechanism (roots, wind, water) rather than a general statement about "bad farming."
- 1.What two factors combined to cause the Dust Bowl?
- 2.Match to the best practice: a farm field on a steep hillside is losing soil to water runoff every time it rains.
- 3.Match to the best practice: a wide-open, flat wheat field loses topsoil to wind every dry spring.
- 4.Distinguish erosion from desertification in one sentence each.
- 5.Describe the results of your erosion demonstration comparing a bare soil mound to a covered one.
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