The Rocky Mountains are described as younger because the Rocky's are really two mountain chains. The older mountain chain started billions of years ago, and the younger mountain chain pushed the older mountain chain up more, only 60 millions years ago.
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1. The human's developed demonstration of the surface of the Earth is called maps. The characteristics like rivers, roads, and buildings are demonstrated by symbols.
2. The mathematical association between the actual distance on the ground and its demonstration on map is called scale.
3. Geographers utilize direction and distance to illustrate relative location, which is the position of one place with reference to another.
4. On a map or globe, the exact positioning of places is predicted by a universally accepted grid system. The system comprises lines of latitudes demonstrated by parallels, and the lines of longitude are demonstrated by meridians.
5. The initiation point on the grid system for finding the latitudinal location is the zero degrees latitude or equator, while the initiation point for finding the longitudinal location is the prime meridian.
6. All lines of longitude meet at the poles.
7. All the lines of latitude are parallel to the equator.
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A. controlling worldwide oil prices
Explanation:
OPEC stands for The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. It is a huge entity that controls the prices of oil internationally. It has heavy influence over politics as for example, if OPEC supported Saudi Arabia and Iran was invading Saudi Arabia, it would raise oil prices heavily for Iran and its allies.
Aglobal positioning system is a system that uses signals from satellites to find out theposition of an object. The abbreviation GPS is also used.
