1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
algol13
2 years ago
11

What is the cause of increasing desertification in Africa? What is causing the Sahara to increase in size

Geography
1 answer:
pishuonlain [190]2 years ago
7 0

The human activities, mostly in the agriculture, are the most responsible for the increasing desertification in Africa.

Explanation:

The population in Africa is mostly poor, and because of that often it is uneducated and not informed properly. When it comes to agriculture this turns out to have devastating effect because the methods used are still primitive and highly damaging to the environment.

The slash and burn method is highly used. It is a method that basically destroys all vegetation so that space is opened up for agriculture, but that is often done on places where the soil is either of not good quality, or very fragile when left without its natural cover. The cleared area only serves the people for few years before it is not good for agriculture, so the process constantly continues, with the end result being destroyed land left behind. On top of this, the water from the rivers is used irrationally, so the environment gets lower amounts of water.

This cases drying out of the areas where the people practice this. Becoming more dry and combined with totally destroyed soil creates good conditions for formation or extension of a preexisting desert. In the case of Africa it is the Sahara Desert that expands because of this, gradually moving southwards.

You might be interested in
In what way does the formation of fault-block mountains differ from the processes that generate most other major mountain belts?
julia-pushkina [17]

1. fault block mountains develop in areas where widespread uplift causes fragmentation of the upper crust, also have steep dips

2. major mountain belts formed by volcanism intrusion and horizontal shortening

:D

7 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
The United States is an ____. 1. LDC 2. MDC
elena-14-01-66 [18.8K]
The United States is an MDC.

Answer: 2) MDC or the second option.
3 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
what different roles might local citizens have in government decision making under a unitary system a federal system and a confe
AnnyKZ [126]
Unitary: no local decisions.
Federal: some local decision.
Confederation: a lot of local decisions.
3 0
3 years ago
What divided Europe into Eastern and Western sections and was a time of great political unrest?
Mariulka [41]

Answer:

Explanation:

Middle ages

5 0
3 years ago
What is the tempature in oregon?
lana66690 [7]
Its 43 in portland right now... normally oregon is cold and very snowy in the mountainous areas and warmer in the winter with drizzles in the lower regions. The summers are hot and there is often rain in areas such as portland, corvalis, and albany.<span />
8 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • How does the carbon cycle work in the desert
    15·1 answer
  • Need help as many as u can please
    12·1 answer
  • What do you call the imaginary lines that divide the earth into squares giving a precise number location for a place ??
    6·2 answers
  • Where is most of the freshwater on earth found?
    11·2 answers
  • A quienes se les llama Uniatas de la Iglesia Ortodoxa 15 puntos
    12·1 answer
  • Question on geography hw please
    12·2 answers
  • What is unique about obtaining water from an artesian well?​
    12·2 answers
  • Kilauea, above, is one of five volcanoes on the Big Island of Hawaii. They get their fuel because the island sits over a hot spo
    8·1 answer
  • Explain the “rain shadow” effect.
    10·1 answer
  • Describe two safety actions that should be practiced in the home. Justify your answer by describing how the action will keep peo
    12·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!