Erosion is a process that describes continuous physical and chemical events which causes soil and rock on the Earth’s surface to loosen and move to a new location. Erosion is the action of surface processes such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth’s crust, and then […]
Water is such an important part of our lives. It can affect the communities and environment in many ways. A drought is when there is the absence of precipitation over an extended period of time, usually a season or more, resulting in a water shortage for some activity, group, or environmental sector. It impacts result […]
A desert landform is a place that gets little to no rain. Areas with little to no vegetation experience more shaping by the winds.The speeding wind picks up loose rocks and blasts them on other rocks surfaces close to the ground. One way that a desert forms is when rain clouds are moved by the […]
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) defines a Levee as a “man-made structure” basically an earthen embankment, constructed and designed in accordance with the sound engineering practices for controlling, containing or diverting the flow of water for reducing the temporary flooding risk. The Meaning of the Levee System is a Flood protection system that is […]
The land is a part of the surface of the Earth which is quite not covered by the Water. It is quite believed that the Land covers 30 percent of the Earth’s surface. A Landform is any type of Natural Geographic Feature which can be found on the surface of the Earth like Hills, Valleys, […]
The soil is an organic material or Loose mineral which is found on the surface of the Earth, basically made up of about 25 Percent of Water, 25 Percent of Air, 45 Percent of Mineral and 5 Percent of Organic Matter (tiny living organisms, humus and sometimes plant residue). The soil is the stuff which […]
The word ‘Drought’ is very difficult to define as it is used in more than one context. In simple terms, Drought is the absence of the Water for a longer time, at a place where drought is considered ‘not normal’ as compared to its usual circumstances. There is an odd distribution of all the Water […]
Igneous rock is the main of all the three types. The others being sedimentary and metamorphic rock. Igneous rocks are rocks formed from the molten magma. This material is made liquid by the heat inside the earth’s mantle. When the magma comes out into the surface of the earth, it is called lava. Lava cools […]
They are found both on land and under the oceans. A hole in the earth’s surface through which magma called lava reaching the earth surface then the hot gases, ash, and rock vanish from deep inside the planet. The word volcano also is used to describe the cone of erupted material (lava and ash) that […]
There are usually four to six hurricanes in a year that will cause some destruction on land. Hurricanes are tropical storms. They take place between the equator and Tropic of Capricorn to the south. Hurricanes form at sea and cause dangerous, stormy seas. Some of the hurricanes reach the land and can destroy buildings and […]