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What is the chance of a flood in the FEMA 100-year regulatory floodplain in any given year? _____

A state-of-the-art secure Class I landfill is lined with an impermeable barrier and has drain pipes to collect the _____ or “garbage juice.”

___ is the common carbonate mineral in sea shells and coral reefs, and may be at risk of dissolving due to ocean acidification. This is also the main mineral in limestone caves.

Most of earth’s fresh water is located in _____.

The land east (landward) of the Cascade Mountain Range in eastern Washington receives little rainfall and is a _____ desert.

Liquefaction during an earthquake is caused because _____.

Most of the electricity we use in the U.S. comes from _____ power plants.

The rock _____ cools and crystallizes from magma deep underground. This is the main rock type of the continental crust and may be quarried for building stone. This rock type is found at Enchanted Rock, Texas.

The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated that there is a high probability that the current driving force of Climate Change is _____.

The 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland grounded airplane traffic in Europe for 6 days due to _____.