How Would the Competency of an Arid Versus a Temperate-Region

question 14

Multiple Choice

How would the competency of an arid versus a temperate-region stream vary,in a downstream direction?

• A) It would increase more in an arid-region stream.
• B) It would increase less in an arid-region stream.
• C) It would probably be the same.

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