Soil Erosion

1. plowing parallel to a slope allowing tears to catch water and keep the soil.
5. Allowing livestock to consume all of the vegetation.
6. Farming and plowing in strips to allow some parts of the land to be covered & protected by vegetation
8. The drying out of mismanaged land that makes it desert like.

2. A way of watering plants that also leads to filtering chemicals through the soil.
3. Like contour farming but usually at a more extreme angle.
4. cutting down all of the trees and plants that hold the soil
7. Trees planted in between the fields to prevent wind erosion, and protect the fields.
8. A severe decade long environmental and agricultural disaster in the 1930's