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Where are levees built?
Levees are built along the banks of rivers
What the difference between natural levees and artificial levees?
Natural levees are built up over time from debris and sediment whereas artificial levees are man made using sand bags and larger rocks.
Does a levee keep water away from the cities?
A levee is a natutral or artificial embankment built along a rivercourse, or an arm of the sea, to protect adjoining land
What have people built to control flooding along the Huang River?
levees
What are the name of the earthen walls built along a river to protect from floods?
Levees, dikes.
What were the artificial embankments built along a river to control flooding?
The embankments are called levees. When the levees around New Orleans failed during and after Hurricane Katrina it led to catastrophic flooding. Note that money had been allocated for work on the levees prior to that but it was decided to use it to improve the roads on top of the levees which, technically, was an "improvement" but one wonders how it would have all played out if it had instead been used to improve the strength of those those levees prior to Katrina.
The Chinese built dikes along the bank of the Huang to?
..... stop floods, just like the levees on the Mississippi.
What is a word for an embankment built along side of a river to control floding?
levees or banks
Where were plantations usually built?
along rivers
What is built along major rivers?
dams
How do people adapt to rivers?
Some people in the southern United States adapted to Mississippi River floods by building their houses on stilts. The Army Corps of Engineers built many levees along the river to keep flood waters back.
What are built along major rivers?
there can be all sorts along major rivers like dams statues.
