A flood is a body of water that covers land which is normally dry. Floods are common natural disasters that can affect millions of people around the world. They destroy houses and buildings, and carry soil away from valuable farming land. Floods can also contaminate drinking water and lead to diseases. They are often caused by rivers, but overflowing lakes and seas can also cause flooding.
Causes:volume, spatial distribution, intensity and duration of rainfall over a catchment.
The capacity of the watercourse or stream network to carry runoff.
Catchment and weather conditions before rainfall.
Ground cover.
Topography.
Tidal influences.
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[She] had kindled the callow fancy of the most idle and shiftless of all
the village lads, and had conceived for this Howard Carpenter one of
those absurd and extravagant passions which a handsome country boy of
twenty one sometimes inspires in a plain, angular, spectacled woman of
thirty. (Willa Cather, "A Wagner Matinee")
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Answer:
1: carry and portable. 2: father and paternal . 3: send and missile. 4: peace and pacifist. 5: come and convention 6: mother and maternal.
Explanation:
Answer:
part /whole: glasses
he threw his eyeglasses across the room
C. Poets repeat words and phrases to emphasize important ideas in poems.
