It is not because a desert is dry since a long time that it is natural.
Old civilisations died because thay forgot the water managment need a know-how.
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2006-12-13 10:19:35 · 6 answers · asked by pingouin 3 in Environment
They are both. Some are natural, some are man made. There is a desert in the state of Maine (USA) that was made because a pig farmer overgrazed a lot of land.
2006-12-13 10:21:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deserts are formed due to rock erosion or mountain orison in windy activity.Many many plans are in effect to stop spreading of deserts.How Israel turns deserts into a fertile land.It's not an human activities to build up a desert.Nature cause the problems due to ecological way.
2006-12-13 18:25:59 · answer #2 · answered by precede2005 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-13 18:34:52 · answer #3 · answered by toddk57@sbcglobal.net 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are deserts on other planets which are not the result of human activity.
2006-12-13 18:33:57 · answer #4 · answered by Martha G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of both. Some deserts are natural, and some were caused by over farming and over grazing of fragle environments that were on the borderline.
2006-12-13 18:21:43 · answer #5 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it is natural although a problem can be brought on by human interference
2006-12-13 18:37:51 · answer #6 · answered by Earth to Mars 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋