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elizabeth18

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Which of the following is true about the ancient Chacoan road system?
 
  a. Although once thought to be an extensive network of roads, aerial photography has shown the roads to be much less extensive than initially believed.
  b. Although once thought to be an extensive network of roads, aerial photography has shown that they were not roads, but were in fact part of a vast canal system.
  c. It was an elaborate and extensive network of roads, covering more than 250,000 square kilometers within New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah.
  d. We now know that they were built strictly for economic purposes, to move goods to markets in Chaco Canyon.
  e. Since the roads do not cut straight across the landscape, but meander around the base of hills, an economic interpretation that factors energy expenditure is favored among scientists.

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TIMS (Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner) can locate subsurface structures by:
 
  a. using radar beams; hard buried surfaces reflect more energy than softer surfaces.
  b. tracking how subsurface structures affect surface thermal radiation.
  c. measuring magnetic anomalies caused by burned subsurface structures.
  d. monitoring the electrical resistance of soils near buried structures.
  e. recording magnetic variations in water.



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lorealeza77

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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

b




elizabeth18

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Reply 2 on: Jul 20, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Excellent

 

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