Question

A massive drought and heat wave caused the dust bowl in texas, however, the damage was compounded by the lack of prairie grass. Explain why prairie grass was important and how replacing the grass with the crops helped cause the dust in the dust bowl?

Answer 1

Dust bowl is caused in the prairie grasslands due to the destruction of grassland and introducing new farming practices. As these farming practices do not include dry land farming technologies that's why unable to control the action of aeolian processes.

Explanation:

Dust bowl was created in the grasslands due to the removal of grass by the practice of crops. Crops are not grown by maintaining proper farming technologies that is dry land farming, That's why it created pollution and dust throughout the grass land which was very harmful for the environment.

Dry land farming is the technology which includes all the strategies needed to implement in the dry lands with grasses and dry climatic region. Grasses are environmentally accustomed in prairie land. But replacement of it through crops damaged the whole environment