It’s no mystery to anyone that by the time a Texas summer rolls around, it’s best to be as far away from the state as you can be and to get there as fast as possible. Those of the population who must navigate the blazing Texas heat that’s often both preceded and succeeded by bouts of rain come out of this season ready for a cool down period, which in Texas will never get too cold. These immensely frustrating seasons of weather have remained somewhat constant throughout the state’s history, but a
In south Texas there are several types of ecosystems one of those ecosystems are the dunes. South Texas dunes are found along the Texas coastline and the general abiotic conditions are sandy soil, high salt content, some fresh water, flooding in the occasion of severe storms and moisture from rain and waves. Sea Oats and Bitter Pancum are two types of plants that dominate the South Texas dunes. Bitter Pancum adaptation for living in this type of ecosystem is that they are tolerant to high salinity
Nation’s worst agricultural disasters occurred. No rain came so crops did not grow, leaving the soil exposed to the high winds that hit the area in the 1930s. Stretching over a 150,000 square mile area and encompassing parts of five states—these being Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico—the Dust Bowl was a time where over 100 million acres of topsoil were stripped from fertile fields leaving nothing but barren lands and piles of dust everywhere (Ganzel). While things were done to alleviate
Climate change can be very harmful. While humans are burning things, it is also warming up the earth. This causes hurricanes and other harmful storm to form. As the earth is getting warmer the ocean is getting bigger from the glaciers melting. Wind Turbines Solar Panels and etc. can help stop burning fossil fuels for electricity. Let the U.S. come together as one whole so that we can save glaciers. Climate change is caused by the interaction of humans on the environment. Atmospheric concentrations
used by Robert E. Geiger, a news reporter for Associated Press, after witnessing the massive dust storm that took place on April 14, 1935. After a few short hours, the name stuck and was continuously used to describe the drought stricken Southern Plain. What started out as a drought ended up being one of the most disastrous events in American history. In little under long eight years, the Dust Bowl brutally debilitated crops and agriculture in the High Plains, left over 500,000 people homeless and
of water to sustain life. That is why drought is such a major concern. Drought and climate change have become well-known topics, especially in recent years. Water conservation and consumption are extremely important topics when discussing drought. Even more important is water consumption in the drought ridden states of southwestern United States. People need to understand what causes drought and what should be done to help lessen the effects of drought. Drought and water scarcity are causing children
“We watched as the storm swallowed the light. The sky turned from blue to black, night descended in an instant and the dust was on us…Dust lay two feet deep in ripply waves across the parlor floor, dust blanketed the cookstove, the icebox, the kitchen chairs, everything deep in dust.” -Karen Hesse’s Diary, April, 1935 (Dust Bowl Diary Entries). In the 1930s, a phenomenon called the Dust Bowl swept the people of the Great Plains off their feet. This paper defines the Dust Bowl and its impact on the
later called “Texas”. Years later, the French come to Texas and so do the Anglos which derived of Germans, Irish and
Global warming, as defined in the same article, Global Warming and Climate Change is, “...a contributing factor to climate change and refers specifically to the effect of greenhouse gases on Earth’s average surface temperature.” Climate change is a big topic of debate because there is a side that believes it is all a hoax and the other side believes in the science saying climate change is real. The most common claim used by people who believe climate change is a scientific conspiracy is something
Did you know that chinchillas took dust baths? Well Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Colorado had took their own in the years of 1930’s. The Dust Bowl was a ten year dust storm that was a continuous downpour destroying millions of agriculture and lives of thousands of people. The Dust Bowl later called the “ Dirty Thirties” was caused by a continuous drought that happened a year before the Dust Bowl and the next ten years of it. Over the ten years of the Dust Bowl, the more time that grew