Plants, animals, fungi, slime moulds, protozoa, and algae are all eukaryotic. 1  These cells are about fifteen times wider than a typical prokaryote and can be as much as a thousand times greater in volume.
A drought is a period of below-average precipitation in a given region, resulting in prolonged shortages in its waters supply, whether atmospheric, surface or ground water.
Drought-affected fields in the Victorian countryside, 2006. Drought in Australia is defined by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology as rainfall over a three-month period being in the lowest decile of what has been recorded for that region in the past.airy producers have been hit particularly hard by the drought that has swept much of Australia. And 2004 was a particularly bleak year in the sector, as a drought-caused drop in production sent revenue in the industry down by 5.6%.