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According to the principle of cross-cutting relationships an intrusive rock body is

Younger than the rock it intrudes into

The youngest rocks are found near the center of

a downwarping known as a basin

A material that undergoes tensional stress tends to

Stretch.

The thickest part of the crust occurs in what

Youngest mountain ranges

What is the Long narrow area that has dropped between two faults

graben

The major forces that form folded mountains are

Compressional Stresses

Which type of geologic event has to occur to create an angular unconformity

The folding or tilting of rocks, followed by renewed deposition, has to occur to create an angular unconformity.

What is a major type of stress that occurs at convergent plate boundaries

Compressional stress.

How can congress prevent the federal government from a shutdown if fiscal budget process is incomplete

pass legislation known as "stop-gap funding" to keep the government running

Which of these statements is fundamental part of keynesian economics

The government can use deficit spending to increase aggregate demand and pull the economy out of recession.

Which is a true statement about the process of accretion

It enlarges continental landmasses and forms mountains along the edges of continents.

Ocean convergence produces what

Ocean convergence with continental plates result in subduction zone. Oceanic with oceanic plates convergence forms volcanic mountain.

A downwarped structure with a circular shape is a

basin

At a continent-continent convergence

folded mountains are produced

The Laffer curve predicts the effects of changes in the tax rate on which of the following

tax revenues

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