Using Specialized Equipment to Produce Simultaneously a Number of Similar

question 118

Multiple Choice

Using specialized equipment to produce simultaneously a number of similar items

• A)leads to economies of scale.
• B)is the goal of deregulation.
• C)can only happen in a high technology nation.
• D)is called economies of scope.

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Definitions:

Transform Fault

A strike-slip fault that accommodates the horizontal movement of one tectonic plate past another.

Mid-Atlantic Ridge

An underwater ridge located in the Atlantic Ocean, forming a divergent tectonic plate boundary that separates the Eurasian and North American plates in the north and the African and South American plates in the south.

Seafloor Spreading

A geologic process in which tectonic plates move apart from each other, allowing magma to rise and solidify as new oceanic crust.

Volcanic Mountain Belt

A volcanic mountain belt refers to a large-scale geographic area dominated by a series of volcanoes, often associated with plate boundaries, where subduction, rifting, or hotspots activities facilitate magma ascent to the surface.