Which scenario led to the disaster that destroyed the city of Armero in 1985?
A) Heavy rains saturated the slopes of Nevado del Ruiz.
B) Flooding eroded the slope of Nevado del Ruiz, oversteepening it.
C) An earthquake shook the slope materials of Nevado del Ruiz loose, causing a landslide.
D) Heat from the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz melted the volcano's ice cap.
Answer: D
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The conceptual basis of geographic questions involves the notion that
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Describe the challenges you think we face in extracting usable amounts of
freshwater directly from the atmosphere. What will be an ideal response?
On large-scale maps, equivalence and conformity can be ________
A) simultaneously present B) simultaneously approximated for small areas C) disregarded if the map is of high latitudes D) considered to be the same map property