Heavy rain or fast melting snow can cause a mud flow.
2. What conclusion can you draw from the two images?
The higher number of degrees that a slope is the more prone it is to a mud slide.
3. List at least two ways you could make the mud slide off the 30° slide plane without changing the plane's angle.
You could saturate the mud even more with water. Or you could have a vibration that could help in the action of pushing the mud downwards.
4. What conditions in nature would be represented by the answers you gave for question 3?
Flooding, Heavy rain, Earthquakes.
5. List at least two factors that contribute to the formation of mudflows on volcanoes.
Ash from the eruptions of the volcanoes. Water.
6. How might forest fires affect an area's potential for experiencing mudflows?
The trees and vegitation roots helped keep the ground down but without those the ground has nothing to hold it down therefore is flooding or earthquakes occur it is more prone to a mudslide. Or landslide.
7. Hypothesize about how mudflows could change the topography of an area after a fire.
Mudflows would move a lot of land and make the area where the mud dispersed look a lot different also the mud would cover plants and grass therefore covering it from its natural needs of sun and other elements.
8. What human activities strip soil of its protective vegetation and increase its vulnerability to mudflows?
Clearing land to build buildings on them.
9. Write a paragraph describing the conditions that cause dangerous mudflows. Include the types of locations where mudslides are most likely to occur.
A mudflow is caused when dirt or ash is soaked with water to create mud. When the water is saturated then the mud will start to slide down a slope. Depending on how steep the slope is the mudflows are more or less likely to happen. Also an earthquake can trigger a mudflow. Mudflows are common in steep bare land areas and on volcanoes.
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