Drought
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8th Grade
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Angélica Manzanarez
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Precipitation helps keeping the inner balance of the earth, providing soil with moisture, groundwater, streams and lakes. However, when an area receives abnormally low precipitation over a relatively long period, causing a water shrtage that affects crops, people or environment, that area is experiencing drought.
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How a drought is produced?
Air above the are creates a region of high pressure, which prevents cloud formation and lowers the relative humidity. If an area experiences a high pressure for too long, the lack of precipitation produces drought.
Size of the area affected.
High temperatures.
Strong dry winds.
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