Assume your group is preparing a report titled "The Negative Effects of Strip Mining on the Cumberland Plateau Region of Kentud.-y." After brainstorming and researching, you all settle on four major topics:

• economic and social effects of strip mining

• description of the strip-mining process

• environmental effects of strip mining

• description of the Cumberland Plateau Assume that subsequent research and further brainstorming produce this list of subtopics:

• strip mining method used in this region

• location of the region

• permanent land damage

• water pollution

• lack of educational progress

• geological formation oft he region

• open-pit mining

• unemployment

• increased erosion

• auger mining

• natural resources of the region

• types of strip mining

• increased nood hazards

• depopulation

• contour mining Arrange these subtopics under appropriate topic headings.

Use decimal notation to create the body of a formal outline. Appoint one group member to present the outline in class.

Hi11t: Assume that your thesis is: "Decades of strip mining have devastated the Cumberland Plateau's environment, economy, and social structure:·