Note 4: An emulsion is termed an oil/water (o/w) emulsion if the. dispersed phase is an organic material and the continuous phase is. water or an aqueous solution and is termed water/oil (w/o) if the dispersed. phase is water or an aqueous solution and the continuous phase is an. organic liquid (an oil).
We got no place to live. Like ants scurrying for work, for food, and most of all for land.. Poor agricultural practices and years of sustained drought caused the Dust Bowl. Plains grasslands had been deeply plowed and planted to wheat.
It is estimated that approximately two million people became homeless because of the Dust Bowl and the damage it did to their farms. Approximately 6,500 people were killed during only one year of the Dust Bowl.