the fact that more people were moving in so they had to make more farm land
They do live in East Africa where there are grass lands, but chameleons are adapted to live in trees or shrubs not grass.
There are two elements that are known to be named after ancient lands. These two elements are ruthenium (after the ancient name, Ruthenia, an Eastern European cross-section) and gallium (after Gaul, the ancient name for France).
Farmers (in a general sense) sold their land and travelled to more fertile lands in the wast, such as California. This led to there being many migrant workers through the drought and didn't help the Great Depression much. The area became virtually unhabitable, so not just farmers left. When the drought came the lands where practically deserted, in a way taking them back in time to the days before the Europeans colonised America, when the lands where knows as the Great Plains or the Great Desert.
The lands on either side of the Nile are called the black lands because of the rich, dark soil left behind by the river's annual flooding, which deposited nutrient-rich silt. This fertile soil was ideal for agriculture and allowed the ancient Egyptians to grow abundant crops like wheat and barley.
Some plants that can be found in the polar tundra include mosses, lichens, dwarf shrubs like Arctic willow and Arctic moss, sedges, and grasses like Arctic cotton grass. These plants are adapted to survive in the harsh conditions of the tundra, such as cold temperatures, permafrost, and strong winds.