Droughts By: Yoko What is a drought? A drought is a type of severe weather that has a long period of time with no rain or unusually weather. Drought can cause a serious problem and some water shortage. Living creature might die because of no food and no water. The biggest drought is the El Nino of 2015
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Why does drought happen? Droughts happen when the amount of precipitation is well below average, a drought might also be caused because of the lack of rain/precipitation. Other factors that cause drought is the wind and heat. Where droughts mostly happen is at where the place was usually hot every day.
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What damage does a drought cause? Drought is a very dangerous weather, this kind of weather, might cause water shortage, and might also cause plants dying, and living creatures dying. Sometimes, a drought might also cause a wildfire.
Where and when does drought usually occur? Droughts usually occur at Texas, Asia, and Australia. Australia has the biggest droughts ever, because of its weather. Droughts usually occur at two seasons, which is Summer and Fall, both of these seasons, are the hottest seasons.
How do scientists study drought? The scientist that studies droughts are called “climatologists.” Climatologists use temperature and precipitation records to define a place’s “normal” climate. In this way, they can know when it is about the time when droughts came.
How do scientists predict drought?
Scientist predicts droughts by study the precipitation and temperature on that specific place or city.
What should you do when there is a drought? When there is a drought you/me should stop using too much water, instead of saving the water to prevent from the drought in the next days.
Some scary drought events: ● Between 1876 and 1879 in the Northern China.about 10 million (10,000,000 ) people starved to death during a drought. ● In Indonesia the hot and dry weather makes the forest catches fire easily. In 1997 an area of forest, then became a forest fire.
The 4 types of droughts: Below, these are the types of drought that were categorized by scientist that studies droughts. ● Meteorological drought means the amount of precipitation has been below average for a long time. ● Agriculture droughts mean that there is not enough water to sustain certain crops. ● Hydrological droughts occur when the water supply is too low. ● Socioeconomic droughts when a water shortage affects humans.
Bibliography Books: Beecroft, S. (1999). T he new book of El Niño. Aladdin/Watts.
Websites: Drought. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.factcite.com/science/9030021.html
Drought caused by El Nino threatening southern Africa: UN. Retrieved from https://phys.org/news/2016-02-drought-el-nino-threatening-southern.html
Thomson Reuters Foundation. FACTBOX-Which countries are worst affected by El Nino? Retrieved from ​http://news.trust.org//item/20151130170205-o6r4u Where do droughts occur? Retrieved from http://dangerousdroughts.weebly.com/where-do-droughts-occur.htm Education. Retrieved from https://drought.unl.edu/Education/DroughtforKids/DroughtStudy.aspx
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