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.
Worster suggests that the causes of the Dust Bowl, like those of the Depression, lay in Americaâs economic institutions and ethos. He also implies that this case study of environmental disaster has important implications for our own age, when drought, starvation, and ecological abuse are threatening the world.