Practicing water and soil conservation ensures when a drought occurs the results are mild
Aridity is the closest to a "scientific" term that you will find.
Drought, loss of vegetation and nutrient deprived soil.
Drought affects the life of pastoralists adversely as they survive by rearing animals. These animals require pasturelands to feed. Drought causes the drying of pasture lands as well as destruction of crops. This results in starvation of animals and eventually their death. Pastoralists adopt nomadic lifestyle to escape this kind of situation.
No. Moisture stress can be a result of drought. Moisture stress results when the level of water in the plant cell reduces to less than normal levels. This happens when there is an environment deficient of water (like a drought condition)
The drought we're in , but don't know what to call the drought. :)
A long period of no rain is called a drought.
A period with little rain is a drought.(The archaic equivalent was drouth.)
The word is drought.
Most of the times drought occur due to lack of rains in that place which results in the drying of wells, lakes, rivers and underground water sources and eventually leading to water scarcity and thus leading to drought.
how big is a drought or how tall
A drought will dry everything up.