11. Suppose that at Site 2 the scientists had also measured, every 6 months, the cumulative distance that material at a depth of 2 m below the surface had moved since September 1, 1994. Based on Figure 1 and 2, on March 1, 1998, would they have more likely measured a cumulative distance of less than 0.8 m or greater than 0.8 m?
Your Answer is
Correct Answer is B
Explanation
From the first sentence of the second paragraph of the article, we can see that figure 2 shows the soil creep situation of Sites 1-3, and from the second sentence, we can know that the data is aligned with material at surface. The cumulative distance material moved at Site 2 on Mar. 1, 1998 was 0.8 m;
According to the first picture describing the soil creep in figure 1, the surface material moves faster than deeper material, so The 2 m below the surface asked in the question stem will move less than 0.8 m