07jaymar61855 07jaymar61855 23-10-2020 English contestada What is the central idea of paragraph 4? The Dust Belt is a strip of dry land that covers many continents. Droughts happen when there are long periods of time during which there is very little rainfall. Dust storms are a problem not only in Africa and China but also in Australia and the United States. A large part of Earth’s population is harmed when droughts cause farmable land to become unusable.