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__// * What is a drought ? //__ //A drought is when an extended period of dry weather that causes water shortages and crop damage. A drought starts when lots of rainfall is well below average for around several months. Other signs of drought include unusually low river flows, no groundwater, very very dry soil, reduced crop yields or even crop failure which is when the crop dies, and algae blooms in lakes. Groundwater is not replenished because not enough rain is falling to wet the soil's entire surface area and to be absorbed properly which is when a drought ocours.//

 // __* What causes a flood?__ // //A flood is caused by a combination of heavy rainfall causing rivers / oceans to over flow their banks, and can happen at any time of the year, not just in the winter.Floodwater can seriously disrupt public and personal transport by cutting off roads and railway lines, as well as communication links when telephone lines are damaged.Floods disrupt normal drainage systems in cities, and sewage spills are common, which represents a serious health hazard, along with standing water and wet materials in the home. Bacteria, mould and viruses, cause disease, trigger allergic reactions, and continue to damage materials long after a flood.// ​ //__* What is a flood?__ // //A flood is when the water level in a creek, river, lake or the sea rises and covers land that is usually dry. Even though some floods occur without problem, others are devastating, causing lots of destruction and significant loss of life. Flooding is experienced all over the world and in some countries such as Bangladesh, flooding occurs regularly.//

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__//* What would happen if you came face to face with a flood and what //____//would you do to prevent it ? //__ =====

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//If someone came face to face with a flood according to our source they would start running to their homes and then go under ground or into a bomb shelter to protect themselves from the flood. When the water from the flood has washed away the people return to their destroyed homes and try to gather whatever remains in the house, they also find their animals have been washed away or drown and there food supply (crops) have been destroyed. // =====

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//Floods effect people by breaking roads and railwaylines so people cant travel they damage furniture and objects in houses, houses themselves may get wrecked, crops can be destroyed so farmers etc cant sell them, electricity supplies would be cut off so no hot water or cooking you couldnt even make a telephone call, lots of disesases and people and animals can get killed. //=====


====__* What are most of the problems you will encounter when you face a__ __flood ?__  ====

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Alot of the problems are mostly bridges, cars, buildings, sewer systems, roadways, canals and any other type of structurebeing destroyed and People and animals can die due to drowning. It can also lead to epidemics and waterborne diseases. Also water supplies can become contaiminated so it is harder to get clean water to drink and even some kinds of trees that arent tolerant to having mass amounts of water on them can be destroyed. =====


<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__* Name a country and explain why they had a flood or drought__ <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Australia has had many droughts due to minimal rainfall but what causes minimal rainfall? All sorts of things. In Australia it's mostly the lack of high mountains, It's also seasonal, because of prevailing winds not coming from the sea. It can also be areas of high pressure over the centre so the winds can't blow the rainclouds inland. And in Fiji there has been floods because of the opposite there has been heavy rainfall.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">__ *How long have floods and droughts been around? __

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Floods and droughts have been around since the earth began but some legends tell of the first <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">flood. A legendary story of a great flood sent by a deity (an immortal god person) or to destroy civilization as an act of revenge. It is a wellknown theme among many cultures, it is now more commonly known as a story from the bible called Noah's Arch. But the first recorded drought was in 1876 in an unknown location. =====