During the entire Paleozoic, the western margin of North America could be described as ____
A)tectonically active with the development of numerous mobile belts
B)a passive margin with only localized mountain building events
C)a passive margin with no evidence of orogeny
D)an active margin with thick carbonate platforms
E)a zone of active volcanism
B
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A. human capital B. natural resources C. economic resources D. manufactured capital E. energy resources
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A. is semiarid grassland used for grazing huge flocks of sheep. B. is covered by tropical rainforests. C. contains the mining industries. D. is desert.
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A) are distributed uniformly across Earth. B) are renewable energy sources. C) were formed in the far distant past. D) have an infinite supply. E) are too easily contaminated.