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.
The climate was an important cause of the dust bowl. The climate of the Great Plain's region is dry and windy; winds reached the speed of 60mph. Scientists believed that drought which caused the dust bowl to take place occurred because it happened same time as La Nina event in the Pacific Ocean.