What is NOT one of the ways that people have tried to specifically mitigate flood damage?
A. limiting land use in floodplains via zoning regulations
B. building artificial levees to control floodwaters
C. constructing dams to produce hydroelectricity
D. building artificial distributary channels
E. restoring floodplains to increase “storage capacity”
C
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A. birds B. reptiles C. rabbits D. marsupials
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a. igneous b. clastic c. metamorphic d. extrusive
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