Why might this be a poor estimate of the size of the 100-year flood?

What will be an ideal response?


Data set not long enough to estimate floods of this size.

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Sketch and discuss the principal patterns of land use within the modern U.S. metropolis, including (a) the central city and (b) the suburbs/edge city. How have forces of globalization shaped North American cities?

What will be an ideal response?

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What responsibility do multinational corporations like Cargill bear for the environmental damage caused by local farmers who supply their raw materials?

What will be an ideal response?

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If one wished to produce a map that focused on the continents and showed little of the world's oceans, then she/he should use a(n) ________ projection

A) large-scale B) equal-area C) interrupted D) conical E) azimuthal

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Which type of mass movement is most common in embankments or earth dams?

a. earth flow b. lateral spread c. translational slide d. rotational slide

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