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.
What happened to the soil during the dust bowl? During the Dust Bowl in the 1930s in the United States, there was a wide-spread drought in the Plains. No vegetation would grow, so the soil was left exposed. When a wind kickâ¦ed up, the soil was picked up and blown hundreds of miles away.