Drought and desertification are closely related phenomena. Persisting over months or years, drought can affect large areas and may have serious environmental, social and economic impacts. While drought is a natural phenomenon, whose impacts can be exacerbated by human activities that are not adapted to the local climate, land degradation is the process of turning fertile land into less or non-productive land. In extreme cases in drylands this is called desertification. Land degradation and desertification are complex phenomena driven by un-adapted human activity in combination with land and climatic constraints. Inappropriate land use, such as monocultures, and unsustainable land management practices, such as deforestation, unsuitable agricultural practices and overexploitation of water resources), can cause land degradation that can be further aggravated by drought.
Answer:
Atmospheric pressure differs in different parts of the world.
Explanation:
- This is because atmospheric pressure depends on the height of a particular location on earth.
- A number of locations on the earth are at sea level. The atmospheric pressure at sea level is 14.7 pounds per square inch.
- At higher levels (altitudes) the atmospheric pressure is lower since higher places have got less air pushing downwards compared to lower altitudes which have more air pushing down and hence, high atmospheric pressure.
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A solid hollow cylinder has an "infinite number of planes of symmetry".
<u>Explanation:</u>
- Two or more faces are said to be symmetric when they have the same dimensions and are geometrically identical.
- When these faces are placed in a setting with 'X', 'Y' and 'Z' axes "perpendicular to each other", they make a plane with three lines of symmetry. A circle has "infinite lines of symmetry".
- Thus, a cylinder with two openings has an "infinite number" of "planes of symmetry".
