The illustration below indicate types of soil erosion. Study them and answer the questions that follow. (a) Identify the type of erosion by A and B....

      

The illustration below indicate types of soil erosion. Study them and answer the questions that follow.
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(a) Identify the type of erosion by A and B.
A
B
(b) Name two factors that may accelerate the rate of the type of erosion represented by A. (1 mark )
(i)
(ii)
(c ) Give one practice that may reduce the impact of the type of erosion represented by A.
(d) Apart from the two types represented by A and B above, name other two types of
soil erosion.

  

Answers


Kavungya
(a) A – Splash erosion
B – Gulley erosion / U-shaped gulley
(b) Factors that may accelerate type A erosion.
* Bare soil / lack of ground cover / surface condition.
* High rainfall intensity.
* Topography / slope of land.
* Wind
(c ) Practice that reduce impact of splash erosion
* Mulching
* Growing cover crops / vegetation cover
(d) Other 2 types of erosion
* Sheet erosion.
* Rill erosion
Kavungya answered the question on April 1, 2019 at 06:24


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