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Drought
Drought is when extended periods pass with no rain, and the ground water supplies become depleted.
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When did drought start in Kenya?
There have been several periods of drought throughout Kenya's history. The most recent severe drought occurred in 2016, which led to food shortages and water scarcity in many parts of the country. However, droughts are a recurring issue in Kenya, and the country has experienced numerous droughts in the past.
How do drought affect our lives?
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.
What are some events that change a habitat?
Natural disasters such as a hurricane, tornado, or earthquake. Man made 'disasters' such as a fire, toxic waste, or deforestation.
What happens to leaves when there is a drought?
They usually go crisp and brown and die (some plant leaves can survive this).
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they will probably fall from the tree
What plants and animals are effected by drought?
Generalising, plants and animals that haven't evolved to cope with prolonged periods of no water. Some plants have roots that go deep enough to get at underwater water, and survive, whereas a normal tree that didn't evolve in that sort of environment would have shallower roots, wouldn't reach the water and die if it doesn't have any other 'emergency hibernation mode' such as loosing its waxy leaves which, even though are waxy to lessen water loss, still causes the plant to transpire. Or for instance retaining water in its trunk from when it was more bountiful.
As for animals, it's tougher for herbivores, which only eat plants. As the plants dry up and if there isn't a lot of drinkable water in the environment, such animals get less and less water from eating. Carnivores, however, eat other animals, which have a higher content of water (blood, etc.) Their survival depends on the herbivores, however, so if a large enough number of those die or migrate, the carnivores will also die in large numbers.
Does A Rainforest Ever Experience A Drought?
There may be some type of unusual weather in the rain forest. The rain forest has all climates, it may be hot at one moment and then its raining.
How do species survive Drought?
This question could be answered in a book!
- To survive the drought the species must overcome the problem of lack of water.
- Some species of frogs burrow into mud, shed skin cells to form a waterproof bag around themselves. Thus they hibernate in small balls of hardened mud and can be reawakened by the next rain even if that is in five years. Imagine the surprise of Europeans to find rocks in Australia that turn into hopping croaking frogs in the rain.
- Some animals that are used to periods of long spells of dry weather do not urinate but rather deposit the uric acid as a solid. This conserves water.
- Some animals can delay development of the foetus or fertilised ovum until the season is good enough to ensure enough food supply for survival eg Kangaroos, freshwater "sidewalker" crabs from Northern Territory
- Some animals eg some crustaceans will lay eggs that can remain dormant until the rain comes.
- Some marsupials hide in cracks in rocks, surviving for long periods without rain.
- Crocodiles can survive for over a year without eating, will immerse themselves in mud that can harden and cocoon the animal.
- Seeds of plants that are drought resistant have hard waxy coating that allows the seeds to remain dormant for years until the rain comes. Lotus seeds can survive for over 200 years.
- Some plants produce spores or spore like seeds that lie dormant until it rains.
The term drought is a relative one. In some countries, rain is regular and plentiful, therefore, a month or 6 months without rain is a drought. For some countries 5 to 8 years without rain is normal. Drought is an introduced term in Australian indigenous languages. Eyre's Lake in central Australia teems with glorious wildlife and flowers every few years, otherwise, it is pretty much a salt pan.
How might a drought affect a community of organisms?
When an ecosystem has a drought, it makes it hard for any living thing to adapt to the new change in climate. It usually kills a drastically large amount of animals and plants, because sometimes living things aren't smart enough to quickly change their lives in order to survive the drought.
How do farmers overcome droughts?
with brains, luck, science and planning and then they pay someone to find out what to do
How can drought affect food availability?
Drought leads to crop failure or in some situations crops not being planted in the first place. This leads to a situation where as a result of lack of supply foods become more expensive or just plain unavailable. The same applies to the availability of meat.
How do you detach a plastic water supply valve that is connected to a copper water supply pipe?
More than likely you'll have to cut the supply pipe off behind the valve or loosen the large nut on the valve which would release the valve from the compression ring...then just replace the valve, if that is what you are attempting to do.
What is the verb form of drought?
The word 'drought' is a noun, a word for a long period without rain; a word for a prolonged shortage of something; a word for a thing.
What are the pros and cons of a drought?
Yeah there are tons of really good things about a drought!
1: People will go without water and soon all humankind will waste away!
2: Animals will die off virtually leaving us hungry and without any pets!
3: plants will die leaving us with no oxegen!
4: Fires will be everywhere wipping out our entire nation and there will be no one to stop the fires!
So see oh yeah there are a ton of good things about droughts.
Our entire world if we keep up in the way were going WILL END!
yay!
How long has Australia been in a drought?
Australia has had many droughts, and in some parts of the country these droughts are continuing even today. There is always a region or shire in Australia which is drought-declared at any given time. It is the geography of the continent which makes Australia so prone to droughts. Some of Australia's major historical droughts include: * The "Federation drought" 1895-1902 * The drought of 1914-15 * The World War II droughts between 1937-45 * 1965-68 drought * The 1982-83 drought, culminating in the horrific Ash Wednesday bushfires * El Niño - 1991 through to 1995 This list is by no means exhaustive, as drought continues in many regions, and has done so since the beginning of this new millennium.
What to do in case of drought?
The best thing is to conserve water as much as you can. * Avoid running taps unnecessarily, e.g. for washing dishes or cleaning your teeth * Take shorter showers * Don't use the hose or sprinklers on your garden * Install rainwater tanks to catch whatever rain does fall == ==
How long has the Australian drought gone on for?
There is always some part of Australia in drought.
Generally, the worst and longest-lasting droughts occur in conjunction with the El Nino weather phenomenon which recurs every two to seven years.
How would you describe the taking of twenty-minute showers during a drought?
It would be very bad because when you take a shower you are going to run out at some point. Thus leaving you no water at all
Common locations where droughts happen?
they most likely happen in very hot places where there isn't alot of rain i think
