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It's thought to have arisen from an amorphous cloud of gas and dust in space. The original cloud was spinning, and this spin caused it to flatten out into a disk shape. The sun and planets are believed to have formed out of this disk, which is why, today, the planets still orbit in a single plane around our sun.
Answer:
The correct answers are (A) and (C)
Explanation:
When a commercial bank is required to hold more money in reserve, this is usually a government or central bank policy (contractionary monetary policy) to reduce the amount of money in circulation.
The bank will then have less money to loan out and also less money to pay interest on loans. This gives the answers (A) and (C).
As for (B) and (D), cash-reserve ratio does not affect the basic flow of money in bank operations and a bank can't have less money for its customers to withdraw just because they are required to hold more money in their reserve. Every saver or customer remains entitled to all the money he saves in the bank.
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seek new trade routes to East Asia.
Explanation:
After Byzantine Empire fell in the hands of Ottomans, the trade links between Europe and East were interrupted. Therefore, Portuguese and Spanish sailors decided to find a water route to East India.
Their first idea was to sail around Africa and to reach India. That was the idea of Portuguese, while Spaniards believed that by sailing towards the west they will reach eastern shores of Asia.
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Global cultivated area on the planet is not increasing significantly, due to high efficiency modern farming practices - True
Henry Wallace is regarded as the father of the Green Revolution - False
Modern agriculture is no longer an environmentally intrusive human activity - False
Approximately 20% of U.S. workers are employed on farms. - False
Explanation:
Global cultivated area on the planet is not increasing significantly, due to high efficiency modern farming practices. - This is one of the reasons, albeit not the only one.
Henry Wallace is regarded as the father of the Green Revolution. - The father of Green Revolution is Dr. MS Swaminathan. He improved the production of crops and promoted sustainability.
Modern agriculture is no longer an environmentally intrusive human activity. - Pollutants, problems with irrigation and degradation of the soil are issues in the modern agriculture.
Approximately 20% of U.S. workers are employed on farms. - According to USDA is 11%.
<span>The first recorded topographical maps issued by the government were based on the East Coast, of Boston Harbor, in 1846. A decade previous, however, in 1835, the Geological and Topographical Survey of Maryland had created a map of Maryland where the relief was shown by visual contour lines, and this 1835 map is considered the first state-issue topographical map.</span>
