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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Los Angeles Against the Mountains.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The citrus groves that once occupied the space at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains have been replaced by:
(a) Housing developments.
(b) State parks.
(c) Pine forests.
(d) Debris basins.
2. How many bowl-shaped excavations line the San Gabriel Mountains to catch debris falling from the mountains?
(a) Two hundred and nine.
(b) Sixty-four.
(c) One hundred and twenty.
(d) Twenty-three.
3. Debris flows occur at different places and different times, happening infrequently enough that:
(a) People continue to move to the region despite the danger of debris flows.
(b) The situation is now fully under control.
(c) The county can afford to pay for damages whenever a flow occurs.
(d) County officials are not worried about them.
4. The Civil Defense Council in the Reykjavik National Emergency Center is established in 1962 as what?
(a) Volcano eruption monitoring station.
(b) Storm-monitoring communication headquarters.
(c) Natural disaster preparedness center.
(d) Command-post bomb shelter.
5. Results of the U.S. Army Air Corps' actions on an insulating vent on Mauna Loa volcano in 1935 cannot be confirmed because:
(a) Workers can't get close enough.
(b) The Corps' loses funding.
(c) The sensors melt.
(d) The volcano stops erupting.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the San Dimas Experimental Forest, Wade Wells is a:
2. What gives Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson the idea to cool the oncoming flow of lava?
3. Where the Genofile family lives in Southern California, riverbanks and riverbeds are:
4. At one point, Rabalais drives the author first to the Mississippi River and then to the Atchafalaya River, showing him that the Mississippi is 18 feet above sea level while the Atchafalaya is how many feet above sea level?
5. What childhood fear does Magnus Magnusson share with the author?
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