Is it good to control flooding with dams?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Perhaps as a short-term, localized solution; however, if we prevent flooding everywhere along a river, the water will build up to unmanageable levels downstream.
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Compare and contrast major floods in a humid environment (i.e., along the Mississippi River) against those in a desert environment
What will be an ideal response?
Which of these is NOT one of the three parts of the recycling loop?
a. Recovery of used materials from consumers b. Reprocessing into new products c. Redoing the other two parts of the loop d. Buying recycled content products