Question

write a short note on how drought and floods are caused has a Scrapbook page

Answer 1

Causes of floods:

• Continuous and heavy rainfall.
• Dams can be broken.
• The rivers can overflow.
• The design of drainage system.
• Natural disasters like tsunami.
• Global warming which results in the melting of ice and snow.

Causes of drought:

• High temperature which results in more evaporation of water.
• No rainfall weather for a long time.
• Supply and demand issue.
• No proper conservation of water.
• Reduce in the ground water level.
• Global warming.

Answer 2

cause of floods :-

heavy rainfall

uncontrolled dams

cause of drought:-

no rainfall in an area

soil erosion