A town is considering the uses of its former landfill. Some people want to use it as a park and others want to build office buildings and form an industrial park
Engineers advising the town council have strongly urged the group to not place any significant buildings on top of the landfill because of problems related to A) leaching.
B) settling.
C) biogas production.
D) incomplete decomposition.
B
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A) batteries that fuel automobiles and buses B) batteries that derive energy from plant material C) devices that directly convert fuel to electrical currents D) fuels that use electrical currents to power automobiles E) fuels that are derived from plant material
Vegetation increases the swelling of soils
a. True b. False
The general scientific consensus is that if levels of human-caused emissions continue to increase, what will happen?
a) overall, Earth will get cooler and the global distribution of climate patterns will change b) overall, Earth will get warmer and the global distribution of climate patterns will stay the same c) overall, Earth will get warmer and the global distribution of climate patterns will change d) overall, there will be no effect on the planet in regards to temperature or climate patterns