This presentation discusses different types of drought, what causes drought, and its impacts. It defines meteorological, hydrological, and agricultural drought. The main cause of drought discussed is global warming, which has increased temperatures and caused changes to the atmosphere. Farmers in Australia have suffered financial losses and death of animals during drought periods. Food prices have also increased as a result of drought.

1. 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

2. We hope you enjoy our 6 minute talk Made by Linh and Nida

3. Introduction: Throughout this speech you’ll learn The type of drought How a drought starts What causes a drought and lots more

4. What is drought? Periods of time without enough rainfalls when water becomes scarce ,crops fail & plants & animal suffer or die

5. 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

6. What causes a drought: T here 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

7. Diagram

8. Here’s the earth

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

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

11. The sun shines in the hole and into the earth

12. This has increased the average temperature and caused climate changes to the earths atmosphere and also causes drought

13. 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

14. 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

15. There are 3 types of drought They are Meteorological drought Hydrological drought Agricultural drought Type of droughts

16. 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

17. Meteorological drought leads to soil moisture and this always has an effect on crops production

18. 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

19. 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.

20. Some pictures of drought

21. This is a picture of a lake being dried by the drought

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

23. This is a picture of crops dying

24. Movie Time Now we would like you to watch a movie clip http://dl.screenaustralia.gov.au/module/75/

25. 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

26. 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

27. Thank you for listening to us We hope you learnt something today!