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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Los Angeles Against the Mountains.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people do with some of the rocks and boulders that roll down the San Gabriel Mountains?
(a) Draw murals on them.
(b) Use them for landscaping and construction.
(c) Sell them to other states.
(d) Build shrines around them.

2. What ultimately happens to the moving piece of mountain on Vestmannaeyjar?
(a) Breaks up into smaller, non-moving pieces.
(b) Completely destroys the town and stops.
(c) Falls into the ocean.
(d) Hits another mountain and stops.

3. Initially, Rabalais is hired as a construction inspector to watch for what at the navigation lock?
(a) Trapped seals.
(b) Oversized ships.
(c) Escaping water.
(d) Illegal drug shipments.

4. What does James B. Eads invent to explore the Mississippi River?
(a) Glass-bottom boat.
(b) Underwater camera.
(c) Submarine.
(d) Water telescope.

5. Heimaey is considered to be an important what?
(a) Lumber producer.
(b) Polar bear sanctuary.
(c) Cultural hub.
(d) Fishing center.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far apart are the San Gabriel Mountain debris basins from each other?

2. Heimaey is about the same size as:

3. For the most part, residents of Heimaey are what during the 1973 eruptions?

4. Debris basins in Los Angeles County provide geologists with the opportunity to measure and determine what?

5. How big are some of the bowl-shaped excavations that catch debris from the San Gabriel Mountains?

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