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zzz [600]
3 years ago
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Explain how a drought poses a threat to life and the biosphere. Use complete sentences.

Chemistry
2 answers:
Marina CMI [18]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

A drought poses a huge threat to all life. If a drought occurred the entire food chain would disintegrate within months. There would be no water for any animals or plants. Small mammals would not be able to eat plants, and reptiles would not be able to the small animals, and so on. A drought can destroy an ecosystem in a short amount of time.

Water is only being moved into the air through water vapor, so the air will become hotter than water. Land is also not moving in the atmosphere and absorbing heat like air is, so air will also be hotter than land, depending on what the land is made of.

Through precipitation, water in the atmosphere can return to the hydrosphere or percolate into the ground to become groundwater—part of the geosphere. ... Water in the biosphere can be released into the atmosphere through transpiration in plants, or respiration in animals.

Explanation:

Arte-miy333 [17]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

There would be no water for animals and plants, so life would die out.

(I added this on my test.)

Explanation:

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