Many engineers inadvertently create mass wasting when they build highways. What’s the error they often do that creates subsequent landslides? Question options: none of the above are ever the cause of any mass wasting highway construction often removes the toe of a slope and leaves the hill steeper than its angle of repose highways add weight to the soil and cause the ground to crack highways cause water to run off the paved road and wash away the surrounding soil

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Many engineers inadvertently create mass wasting when they build highways. What’s the error they often do that creates subsequent landslides?

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	none of the above are ever the cause of any mass wasting
	highway construction often removes the toe of a slope and leaves the hill steeper than its angle of repose
	highways add weight to the soil and cause the ground to crack
	highways cause water to run off the paved road and wash away the surrounding soil

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