Dust Bowl
By: Sophie Solliday
About
- was a manmade and natural disaster
- had powerful static electricity
- the swirling dust was deadly
- most farm families did not flee the Dust Bowl
Causes
- economic depression
- extended drought
- unusually high temperatures
- poor agricultural practices
- wind erosion
Pictures
Effects
- lengthened economic depression
- destroyed homes and crops
- no income for families
- animals and humans dying from inhaling the dust
- not being able to eat