ESS102H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Plate Tectonics, Continental Drift, Magma Chamber
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Geologic features and processes constrain where people can live because they determine whether a site is safe from landslides, oods, or other natural hazards. Hazard and help talks about how geo influences us. Most of us choose to live in hazard and help?". Like alberta there are hazards of living near the rivers, like flooding. Rural area with farms, waters/flooding are good because it brings new nutrients to the area. In the nile, fertility depends on flooding for farms to be furtile. Hazard in the mountains are not good for anyone because it has sediment and deadly to live in. It can kill people but can help, and be helpful. Hazard and help water and river- water is coming down from mountains. It has a water source because there is ice. Point: geo infl where we live, where we farm. It is positive and negative: how foes geo influence our lives. Dont have to know what rock it is.
