In what ways are slope-stability maps useful to planners and developers? What will be an ideal response?
Slope-stability maps are used to determine where certain types of buildings and other structures should
or should not be built, and to indicate how slope stability might be improved, if structures are built
where stability is compromised.
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Of what value are the oceans in moderating climate change?
a. Oceans remove about 25% to 30% of the atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by humans. b. Oceans reflect sunlight back into space before the ultraviolet wavelengths are converted into infrared radiation. c. Oceans absorb about 40% of the methane out of the atmosphere that has been produced by rice paddies and livestock. d. Oceans help to reduce the level of water vapor in the atmosphere through condensation and transpiration. e. All of these answers.
A stream tributary may erode headward to capture another stream system because:
a. it has a steep gradient b. its channel is cut into nonresistant material c. it has a concave longitudinal profile d. both a and b
Marine phosphate is an example of which of the following sediment types?
A) Biogenous Sediment B) Cosmogenous Sediment C) Hydrogenous Sediment D) Lithogenous Sediment E) Terrigenous Sediment
In the past two decades, China's economic reforms allowed _____________________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).