The Type of Building Construction and Population Density in the Area

question 39

True/False

The type of building construction and population density in the area of an earthquake are factors that can affect the intensity on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale.

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Definitions:

Surface Structure

In linguistics, the outward form of a sentence, which can vary without changing the core meaning.

Deep Structure

A concept in linguistics, referring to the underlying syntactic structure or meaning of a sentence, as opposed to its surface structure.

Transformational Grammar

A linguistic theory proposed by Noam Chomsky that describes how deep structures of language are transformed into surface structures.

Deep Structure

In linguistics, the underlying syntactic structure or meaning of a sentence, as opposed to its surface form.