Wind erosion occurs at a faster rate in the desert then in place of the pacific layer of vegetation covering the ground why do you think this is the case

Explanation:

when the soil is bare of vegetation the wind can pick up and carry sand, small rocks and soil. The sand being carried by the wind can act as an abrasive cutting into rocks, causing further erosion. This is nature's form of sand blasting.

Vegetation protects the soil, preventing the wind from picking up and carrying abrasives like sand and small pebbles. The wind by itself has little erosive power. Without the bare soil where wind can pick up sand there is little wind erosion.

explanation:

two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley, i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten; all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however; many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn, whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today; its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.

two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley; i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.