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.
Where did the Dust Bowl take place? The Dust Bowl primarily affected the American Great Plains region, most notably the states of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. So many came from Oklahoma that people often called the displaced farmers âOkies,â regardless of their place of origin.