Question

What human activities can increase rates of soil erosion?

Answer 1

Overgrazing, over cropping and or deforestation can lead to desertification – the spread of desert like lands due to these human activitiesaccelerating natural erosion of soil.Humans cause increases in acid rain and pollution, which increase the amount of weathering agents in the air and water, and then on land. ... Other activities such as strip-mining and agriculture can affect the ability of the land toabsorb rain, increase erosion and run-off, and increase chemicals in the groundwater