The answer is D) it provided irrigation for farming.
Answer: B. Aral Sea
Explanation:
The Syr Darya River is located in Central Asia where its source is somewhere in the Tian Shan mountains in Kyrgyzstan.
It then flows for several thousand kilometres through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan into what is left of the Aral sea which was once the fourth largest lake in the world but after the Soviet Union diverted the waters of the Syr Darya river for irrigation, has now almost dried up.
Answer:
Earthquakes are caused by a slippery slope. When the pressure at the edge exceeds the collision, there is an earthquake that pulls the energy from the tides that move the crust and cause the tremors we feel. In California there are two plates - the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate, which is the most earthquake prone are in north America.
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