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The most common cause of desertification is the over cultivation or over grazing of desert lands. Over-cultivation causes the nutrients in the soil to be depleted faster than they are restored. Improper irrigation practices result in salinated soils, and depletion of aquifers.
Excessive abstraction of groundwater and removal of native species to facilitate farming are also contributory factors.
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What is the process called when a desert spreads?
Over utilization of ground water, tree felling and over-grazing are some of the reasons for the spread of deserts.
What is the process of an infertile area becoming a desert called?
The answer is DESERTIFICATION
A sentence with the word desertification?
It was a shame when the land became a desertification area. Desertification is when a piece of land becomes a desert.
What is the spread of desert like conditions?
Desertification
The conversion of a previously soil-rich productive area into a desert called?
Desertification
The process of fertile land being turned into a desert is called?
Desertification is the process whereby productive land becomes desert.
What term is defined as the process during which desert like conditions spread into semiarid areas?
The process is called desertification.
What is a sentence for desertification?
Desertification causes a decrease of vegetation.
What are three causes of desertification?
The most common cause is is the removal of most vegetation.The reasons for vegetation removal are:climate changemovement and migration of large herds of livestock and wildlifedroughttillageovergrazingdeforestation for fuel and expansion
What is the formation of deserts known as?
the formation is called desertification)
What does the word desertification mean?
Desertification is the degradation of land in drylands.
What 4 things threaten soil fertility?
Loss of organic matter, desertification, erosion, alkinity
