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What the difference between natural levees and artificial levees?
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Natural levees are built up over time from debris and sediment whereas artificial levees are man made using sand bags and larger rocks.
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What is the difference between a dike and a levee?
A levee is an embankment along a stream that protects land from flooding. Levees can be natural or constructed. A dike is much the same, a protective wall, often to hold back the sea.
How are dams and levees diffrent?
Dams are in front of the flow, levees are at the sides.
What are the three basic flood-control methods?
Floods can be controlled through forest and soil conservation and by building structures such as levees and dams
How does technology control constructive forces and destructive forces?
1P People use it by using flood control, dams, levees, beach reclamation, and storm drain management.
Does rice grow properly if it is grown on sloped land?
No, after rice is planted it needs to be submerged under water for many weeks there are levees built around the ground that is planted and the land has to be level so the water doesn't run to one side that would cause the high ground to have little to no water and would burn up in the summer sun and have to much water on the low side of the ground where no sun at all could get to it
Is it true that artificial levees are much higher and wider than natural levees?
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What are levees?
levees are artificial or natural slopes or walls to prevent flooding of a river.
What is a term for a natural or artificial embankment that helps control flooding along a river?
SOIL
Why are artificial levees built along rivers?
Because they do
Artificial levees and dams are structures used to control what?
Flooding
Artificial levees and dams are structures used to control .?
Flooding
Are artificial levees resistant to river erosion?
yes this can happen due to runoff
Why must the height of many artificial levees be increased periodically?
To prevent an overflow
What is the difference between a dike and a levee?
A levee is an embankment along a stream that protects land from flooding. Levees can be natural or constructed. A dike is much the same, a protective wall, often to hold back the sea.
What deltas and natural levees have in common?
they look the same
What does deltas and natural levees have in common?
they look the same
What do people sometimes use to build artificial levees to prevent searious flooding?
flood barriers
