It should be the third answer choice. The nations of OPEC chose to cooperate primarily in order to manage the supply of a natural resource.
OPEC works to balance both the production and price of oil so that customers are able to receive a consistent supply of petroleum and investors in the industry are able to make profit from their investments.
Answer:
Subsidence is so slow that there seems to have been no depression of the upper surface of the lithosphere, so depositional environments are mostly the
same as those in surrounding areas; the succession is just thicker. These
successions are also more complete, however—there are fewer and smaller
diastems—so at times the basin must have remained under water while surrounding areas were emergent. (A diastem is a brief interruption in
sedimentation, with little or no erosion before sedimentation resumes.)
Size, shape: rounded, equidimensional, hundreds of kilometers across
Sediment fill: shallow-water cratonal sediments (carbonates, shales, sandstones),
thicker and more complete than in adjacent areas of the craton but still
relatively thin, hundreds of meters.
Hopefully that helps!
After some research and studying the graph you posted with your question, there are many reasons why all four latitudes have the same number of hours of daylight on March 20th and also September 22nd.
Some of the reasons are:
These two dates are equinoxes, the sun's direct rays are over the equator, and the Earth's North Pole is not is not tilted toward or away from the Sun on those specific dates. Any of these answers are acceptable for the question you asked.
