You can feel the dryness in your throat. The land is barren

and covered in thin dust. Cracks appears in

the earth’s. This is drought

We hope you enjoy our 6 minute talk

Made by Linh and Nida

Introduction: Throughout this speech you’ll

learn The type of drought How a drought starts

What causes a drought and lots more

What is drought?

Periods of time without enough rainfalls when water becomes scarce ,crops fail & plants &

animal suffer or die

How a drought starts :

A drought starts when total rainfall is well below average for several months

Other signs of drought include: Very dry soil Trees have a sign of dying Weather getting hotter and lots more

Very dry soil

What causes a drought:

There are a lot of reasons that causes a drought like:

When there is not enough rainfalls The biggest reason that causes a

drought is global warming. Global warming is a big effect to the earth

Diagram

Here’s the earth

There’ s a layer around the earth called an ozone layer. The ozone layer protects the earth

Ozone Layer

From all the pollution we have made a hole in the ozone layer Hole

The sun shines in the hole and into the earth

This has increased the average temperature and

caused climate changes to the earths atmosphere and also

causes drought

Farmers:• Australian farmers have been suffering

throughout the drought time .It has been very hard for them to:

• Grow there crops• Grow plants• They have:• Lost a lot of money• There animals have died in the hot

weather and lots more This is a picture of a corn destroyed by the dry soil

Prices of the food:

From the drought the prices of the food in Australia has increased

especially wheat

It has increased like twice as its usual price

There are 3 types of drought They are

Meteorological drought

Hydrological drought

Agricultural drought

Type of droughts

Meteorological drought

Meteorological drought is generally defined by comparing the rainfall in a particular place and at a particular

time.

The meaning is therefore specific to a particular location

Meteorological drought leads to soil moisture and this always

has an effect on crops production

Hydrological drought

Hydrological Drought is associated with the affect of low rainfalls on water level in reservoirs, rivers & lakes .This type of drought are noticed sometimes after a meteorology drought.

A hydrological drought change in water level affects eco-system

Agricultural drought

Agricultural drought occurs when there isn’t enough water for a crop to grow at

the particular time.

This type of drought doesn’t depend only in the amount of rainfalls where water is used carelessly for irrigation

and other purpose.

Some pictures of drought

This is a picture of a lake being dried by

the drought

This is a picture of an animal died in the hot weather

This is a picture of crops dying

Movie Time Now we would like you to watch

a movie cliphttp://

dl.screenaustralia.gov.au/module/75/

Glossary Page Barren: dry

Occur :happen

Eco-system :a community of plants &

animals ,non-living &living objects

Irrigation: supplying extra water to a dry

area to help crops grow

Where we got the information from:

We got the information from Google Also the pictures

Now we would like you to

see a special website that we got some of our information

H:\Current Events - Droughts - Forces of Nature.mht

Thank you for listening to us

We hope you learnt something today!