How do droughts happen?
Droughts happen due to a period of time without precipitation.
What is a drought?
A drought is when an area becomes dry due to a long period of no precipitation causing hydrological imbalance
How do droughts affect the ecosystem?
- Kill crops
- Cause Forest Fires: burning of plants and trees, the death of animals, rarely the death of humans
- Food chains break
- Food web is damaged
- Kill Animals (starvation or dehydration)
- Famine
- Kill plants and trees
- Make earth dry
- Dehydration of plants and trees