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


d

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A. They are both examples of compounds. B. They are both examples of heterogeneous mixtures. C. They both contain elements. D. nothing

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What is a medina?

A) A mound built on the outskirts of Islamic cities in Southwest Asia and North Africa; it is a burial ground. B) The walled urban core of an Islamic city; it is dominated by a central mosque. C) The name for capital city in Southwest Asia and North Africa. D) The erosional materials left behind in Southwest Asia and North Africa after ancient lakes and rivers dried up. E) The temporary settlements of families engaged in pastoral nomadism in Southwest Asia and North Africa.

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The term greenhouse effect describes

a. occupational diseases of florists b. the trapping of heat energy in the troposphere by certain gaseous molecules c. the trapping of heat energy in the stratosphere by nitrogen d. efforts by the White House to support environmental legislation e. the trapping of heat energy in the troposphere by nitrogen

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About what percentage of Earth's land surface was affected by glaciers during the Quaternary period?

What will be an ideal response?

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