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If expansive soils and subsidence are included, total losses from mass wasting in the U.S. are many times greater than the annual combined losses from earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes.
2.Mass wasting is included under the broader heading of landsliding.
3.The steeper the slope, the greater the potential for mass wasting.
4.Creep is considered to be a type of flow.
5.Debris flows are uncommon in desert areas.
6.Debris flows that occur on volcanoes are called lahars.
7.El Niño years are particularly hazardous for mass wasting in California.
8.Slumps occur primarily in coherent layered rocks with variable physical properties.
9.Forces that tend to keep a landslide in motion are called driving forces.
10.A slope where the driving forces are less than the resisting forces is unstable.
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