The main purpose of a dike is protecting the land behind it from flooding.
Dry windy conditions. Mostly human causes. Also causes such as lightning and suns rays over smoldering debris piles.
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A feature of the reduction in death rates has been the increased excess mortality of males. There have also been big and rapid reductions in death rates in many developing countries, even in the absence of important improvements in living standards. Antibiotics and insecticides have made a major contribution to this movement in the last twenty years. It is unlikely that death rates will fall as rapidly in the next few decades as in the recent past in either developed or developing countries.
"Gulf of Finland" <span>is the name of the gulf which lies between the Scandinavian Peninsula and Finland
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A) <span>the crust of the lithosphere that has fractured along plate boundaries and ridges</span>
