A Case study highlighting soil mismanagement and conservation

techniques

Watch the video and answer the

questions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-
rBhbkvtm0

Figure 1 The huge Black Sunday storm strikes the Church of

Good in Ulysses, Kansas, 1935. The heart of the Dust Bowl
covered more than 100 million acres in Texas, Oklahoma, New
Questions Mexico, Colorado and Kansas.

1. Where is the location of this case study (insert and label a map)

2. What was the natural biome before the farming took place

3. What were the main reasons why the soil was degraded?

4. What happened to make the problem worse?

5. What were the soil conservation techniques?

© Laura Hamilton,
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