QUESTION 2 How do plants help in erosion control?
1.Plants roots hold the soil in place.

2.Plants are pretty and keep the neighborhood from being ugly.

3. Plants do not help in erosion control.

4. Plants allow the soil to float in the rainwater.

16. a brave but inadequate rugby player is being pushed backward by an opposing player who is exerting a force of 800 n on him. the mass of the losing player plus equipment is 90.0 kg, and he is accelerating at 1.20m/s2 size 12{1 "." "20"" m/s" rsup { size 8{2} } } {} backward. (a) what is the force of friction between the losing player’s feet and the grass? (b) what force does the winning player exert on the ground to move forward if his mass plus equipment is 110 kg? (c) draw a sketch of the situation showing the system of interest used to solve each part. for this situation, draw a free-body diagram and write the net force equation.

The statue of liberty is 305.5 feet high. when the angle of elevation of the sun is 50 , what is the distance to the tip of the shadow from a point at water level and directly below the highest point of the statue?

Geologists get to play with chemistry, physics, and history! and what a history you will meet as youwork your way through the course. starting at the beginning, the textbook provides the scientifically acceptedstart of the and promises that you'll get to explore some of the evidence for that scientific view, later inthe semester. meanwhile, which is more nearly correct of the scientifically accepted view? a) the earth formed when the big bang caused older materials to fall together, about 14 billion years ago.b) the earth formed from the falling together of older materials, about 4.6 billion years ago.c) the earth formed in the big bang, about 6000 years ago.d) the earth is eternal, having been here forever and promising to be here forever.e) the earth was assembled by gigantic space beavers, which gnawed down the primordial tree of life andpiled its branches together to form the planet.