How can earthquakes cripple emergency services, transportation networks, water and gas utilities, and communication?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: by destroying or damaging roads, and causing buildings to collapse onto roadways

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A) Swamps B) Lakes C) Streams running part of the year D) Few streams E) More water in plant life rather than in streams

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Which of the following is not a possible mechanism contributing to continental rifting?

A) Changes in gravitational attraction of the moon B) Concentration of mantle plume heat beneath a continent C) Tensional stress D) Upwelling from shallow levels in the asthenosphere

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Life on Earth would most likely be less advanced if there were no magnetic field.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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The process by which science works is useful to the general public as well as to scientists.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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