Farmers use excessive fertilizer, and irrigation damages the land.

It can occur if the soil is left unplanted for a long period of time because plants keep the soil from being blown away.

It produces gullies while ruining crops.

This makes the soil bare same also with road construction.

Bits of rocks are separated and fall down to a level.

Movement of rock fragments and soil from one place to another.

The pressure on the ice at the bottom becomes so great that it partially melts, then the entire ice mass starts moving.

Clearing of trees, transforming a forest into cleared land.

Raindrops falling on the soil exert pressure with their weight.