When the Bearing Capacity of Soil Is Poor and the Intensity

question 17

Multiple Choice

When the bearing capacity of soil is poor and the intensity of traffic is high, an additional layer is provided between the soling and sub-grade. This additional layer is called

• A)wearing layer
• B)sub-base
• C)road surfacing
• D)all of these

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Definitions:

Light-sensitive

The characteristic of being responsive or sensitive to light, often referring to materials or biological entities that change in presence of light.

Receptor Cells

Specialized cells that convert external stimuli into electrical signals for the nervous system to process.

Opponent-process Theory

Opponent-process theory is a psychological and neurological model that describes how the perception of one stimulus (color, emotion, pain) is dependent on the opposite function of its pair.

Ewald Hering

A 19th-century German physiologist who proposed the opponent-process theory of color vision.