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This is why Sea City was created.
What is to create a new eco-city with more coastline?
A large construction machine made for digging out earth with its bucket to create trenches, holes, foundations, and in Sea City to move and place rocks.
What is an excavator?
Out of six possible locations developers applied for, this was the deciding factor for the chosen location.
What is access to water?
Water that can be problematic and of poor quality due to stillness.
What is stagnant water?
These are gyornes.
What are rock structures designed to protect the shoreline?
This is the largest boating market in the golf.
What is Kuwait?
When a weight is repeatedly dropped on the ground to create small "earthquakes" that will prevent structures from sinking.
What is dynamic compaction?
The name of a shrub or small tree that is salt and drought tolerant.
What is a mangrove?
Critical thinking:
The biggest challenge marine life may face in the created seaside town.
What are boats?
The rocks used to make walls for the marina originated here.
What is Saudi Arabia?
The system that uses rising and falling tides and large metal gates to facilitate proper water movement throughout the lagoons.
What is the Tidal Flushing System?
Silt soil was problematic for construction because of this factor.
What is waterlogged causing buildings to sink?
This alternative material was used in re-engineering the under layer in the revetment work.
What is old concrete?
"Night netting" is the name for this process.
What is a way to check the number of species in the sea?
When black sand is visually present it is a sign it is anaerobic, or this.
What is a lacking oxygen?
The amount of time the hydraulic gates in the Tidal Flushing System will last.
What is 50 years?
The document that calculated the environmental cost and benefits of building.
What is the Environmental Impact Assessment?
One of two functions for planting mangroves on the islands.
1. What is to provide nurseries for young fish and other marine species?
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2. What is to stabilize the marine bed?
This is flourishing in Sea City, but under threat elsewhere around the world.
What is coral?
The process for sea water to flow down the channels, and lap against the brand new beaches.
What is "water in"?
This will contain 42 kilometers of new beaches, and another 3 million drops of a 15 ton weight to compact the soil.
What is A4?
The definition of revetment.
What is the challenging process of lining the walls of the marina with rock?
This is called a halophyte.
What is a salt-tolerant plant?
The source of three million gallons of seawater for the lagoons and marina of A3.
What is the Arabian Gulf?
The reason mortar was only used between rocks above the high tide level, and gaps were left between rocks in the lower areas.
What is to create a place for marine life to colonize in the future (to create a new marine environment)?