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Summarize how human activities can affect the size and number of floods. [EARTH SCIENCE]

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Human activites have and can affect the size of floods by what human activites can do to the enviroment.

Activities such as

1 - logging

2 - building houses

3 - farming remove plants that cover the ground. Without ground cover, soils erode more easily, which can cause flooding.

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