II. Identify the agent or cause of erosion of each situation. Choose from the box below. Write your answer in your paper.
Choose here: deforestation,
overcropping,
water,
glaciers,
overgrazing,
Kaingin,
wind,
water and wind,
___1. Farmers tend to clear and burn a patch of forest area. They cultivate the area until such time that the soil is no longer good for planting.
___2. Forest or brush have been carelessly cut or burned on sloping land, the rain sweeps down the slope in a sheet and gradually washes away the soil.
___3. One of the most powerful natural force that washes away the topsoil in agricultural land.
___4. Large ice formations that move slowly and form valleys and shape mountains through erosion
___5. A powerful natural force that causes significant erosion in dry areas. It usually picks dust and sand particles from the land surface and carries them to a large distance before settling.
___6. It carries away more rocks and soil than all other agents.
___7. It exhausts the fertility of the land by continuous cultivation of crops.
___8. Plants are exposed to intensive grazing of animals making the soil bare.
___9-10. What two agents or natural forces cause this rock formation to look like this?
