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.
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This is due to the unequal resource distribution across the land and the distribution of resources depends upon the physical factors like the land and the climatic conditions. Some places are filled with more resources while some are filled with scare resources. The countries which have more resources are wealthy while the countries which do not have that much resources are not wealthy. The metals are also unevenly distributed on the earth’s crust and the most abundant metal is aluminum and silicon. Some of the distracted metals which are found deep in the earth’s crust and then extracted in the ore form from the mines. The most important reason for the uneven distribution of metals in Earth's crust are their physical factors like the climate, land and their topography.
Asteroids rarely pass close to Earth
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