Network Models Are Used To

question 106

Multiple Choice

Network models are used to:

• A) make future projections useful in the planning process.
• B) control inventories by mathematically determining how much to automatically order and when.
• C) allocate service personnel and workstations based on alternative workload demands.
• D) calculate how best to allocate production among different machines.
• E) break large tasks into smaller components and diagram them in step-by-step sequences.

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Definitions:

Passive Margin

The shift from oceanic to continental lithosphere which isn't located at an active plate margin.

Continental Margin

The zone of the ocean floor that separates the thin oceanic crust from thick continental crust, including the continental shelf, slope, and rise.

Plate Boundary

The edges where two tectonic plates meet, which can be divergent, convergent, or transform, leading to various geological features and events.

Normal Faults

Fractures in the Earth's crust where the rock above the fault plane has moved down relative to the rock below.