In the 1930s, physical factors, such as extremely high temperatures and severe droughts, led to the Dust Bowl. What human factors also contributed to this natural disaster? A) Farmers overplanted their crops and planted in straight rows. B) Farmers fenced in their lands and killed off wildlife. C) Farmers did not harvest enough of their crops. D) Farmers wasted water by digging too many wells for irrigation.

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Sterling Vega

7 August, 17:04

In the 1930s, physical factors, such as extremely high temperatures and severe droughts, led to the Dust Bowl. What human factors also contributed to this natural disaster? A) Farmers overplanted their crops and planted in straight rows. B) Farmers fenced in their lands and killed off wildlife. C) Farmers did not harvest enough of their crops. D) Farmers wasted water by digging too many wells for irrigation.

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Izabelle Lin · Answer 1

The appropriate response would be D. The Dust Bowl is a natural calamity that hit the Midwest in the 1930s. Broad cultivating joined with severe drought caused the it. Deep plowing on the Great Plains executed the common grasses that kept soil set up, and the topsoil swung to dust and blew away.