Baking powder is made of baking soda and the right amount of acid to react with the soda (it also includes corn starch to keep the ingredients from prematurely reacting in the privacy of their container).
Making the world better, one answer at a time. The Dust Bowl affected the agricultural areas and damaged cash crops, that most farmers made a living on. Also severe droughts were held that affected the land in the southern plains. Economy was declining as most farmers were poor.
Many factors contributed to the. creation of the Dust Bowl â soils subject to wind erosion, drought which. killed the soil-holding vegetation, the incessant wind, and technological. improvements which facilitated the rapid breaking of the native sod.