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Hint	Answer	% Correct
1	1. location of New Orleans below sea level and between lake pontchartrain and the Mississippi River	100%
4	2. Wetlands drained/altered	0%
10	3. Artificial levees built around river/swamps to protect N.O.	0%
7	Barrier islands provide a thick line of protection for the mainland against storms by absorbing energy from the strongest waves (eg, Chandeleur islands approx 100km east of New Orleans)	0%
8	Coastal wetlands absorb the impact of a storm surge or river flood by providing a break over which water loses its destructive energy	0%
17	Examples of levees that broke were the: Industrial Canal, 17th Street Canal, London Ave Canal	0%
5	Expansive wetlands help to protect inland areas from Hurricane winds and storm surges, but these were destroyed due to human activity.	0%
6	In the past the coastline was further from New Orleans and the water logged areas absorbed the impact of storm surges. Removal of wetlands brings cyclone effects closer to city.	0%
9	Louisiana loses an estimated 16,000 – 22,000 acres of wetlands a year. This loss can be attributed to both human and natural causes.	0%
12	Natural levees were strengthened along the Mississippi River distributary below the city, and roads and settlements were built on them.	0%
3	New Orleans is located on the Mississippi Delta between a distributary of the river and Lake Pontchartrain making it vulnerable to storm surge	0%
2	New Orleans is the gulf coasts city most vulnerable to hurricanes, because of its coastal location (30'N, 90'W)Southeastern coast of USA which borders the warm Gulf of Mexico	0%
14	The local government refused to spend much needed money on strengthening the levees. The levees were built in the 1990s and had received no maintenance since.	0%
16	They were only built to withstand no more than category 3 hurricanes, Katrina was a category 5 hurricane when it hit New Orleans	0%
13	This meant that during periods of heavy rainfall, the river could no longer overflow and spread silt on the delta wetlands.	0%
15	This resulted in 80% of the city of New Orleans being under water (8m) when Hurricane Katrina hit	0%
11	When peat swamps are drained, they shrink, which means that N.O. ended up well below sea level. It relies on flood walls, pumps and levees to keep it dry.	0%

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