Drought

Drought

Drought

Precipitation helps keeping the inner balance of the earth, providing soil with moisture, groundwater, streams and lakes. However, when an area receives abnormally low precipitation over a relatively long period, causing a water shrtage that affects crops, people or environment, that area is experiencing drought.

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Drought is when an area receives the same precipitation as always causing something far away from a shortage in water that could cause serious damage to people, crops or the environment.

• True

• False

How a drought is produced?

• Air above the are creates a region of high pressure, which prevents cloud formation and lowers the relative humidity. If an area experiences a high pressure for too long, the lack of precipitation produces drought.

• Size of the area affected.

• High temperatures.

• Strong dry winds.

Multiple Choice

Low pressure systems in the atmosphere, the same responsible for creating hurricanes, are in charge of creating droughts.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

If an area experiences a high pressure system for too long, the resulting lack of precipitation produces drought.

• True

• False

Types of drought

• Meteorological drought

• Agricultural drought

• Hydrological drought

• Socioeconomic drought

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Type of drought that compares the actual amount of precipitation with how it used to be before. An example is if in a part of the worl is usual to have precipitation daily, experiencing two weeks without precipitation is considered a drought.

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Type of drought that is based on the water shortage's effect on people.

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Type of drought that occurs when a meteorological drought affects an area's groundwater, streams, lakes and reservoirs.

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This type of drought occurs when precipitation cannot supply enough moisture to the ground to support an area's crops.