1. What is meant by desertification? 2. Choose one of the red (very high) areas

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1. What is meant by desertification?

2. Choose one of the red (very high) areas of the map, and describe why you think this area is so vulnerable (do a little online research to answer this).

3. Suggest one thing that might be done to help reduce the vulnerability of this area.

4. Include a link or image from your research that helps illustrate your response.

Reference

VULNERABILITY Low Moderate High Very High OTHER REGIONS Dry Cold Humid/Not vulnerable Ice/glacier Desertification Vulnerability Miller Projection SCALE 1: 100,000,000

Explanation / Answer

1. Desertification is mainly caused due to the lack of vegetation, it an result of the over grazing or deforestation. Cattle can compact the soil so that soil can not hold water in it and when rain comes this will lead to the erosion of the soil caused water can’t be soaked by the ground, resulting in converting the soil into less fertile this will kill the vegetation such as trees, shrubs, grass etc and leading it to converting it into an barren land.

2. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are the ares of the ares which can be classified as most vulnerable as the water in this areas have not be used properly and the threat of converting the agricultural land info an desert is prevailing now due to it’s geographic location along with the improper uses of the valuable water resource.

3. If there is a problem then there is always a solution to it but it requires an global support in order to implement it, not only that it requires some short of political will to do so, as this ares have political instability along with the prevailing rivalry that need to be resolved, not only that it require some active participation of the people so that this issue can be resolved with the proper utilization of the irrigation method so that not a single drop of the water get wested in this.

4. I took the help of http://www.new-ag.info/en/focus/focusItem.php?a=1144 as the source.

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