Much of the World's Digital Information Is Stored in Files

question 47

True/False

Much of the world's digital information is stored in files structured so that they can only be read by the programs that created them.

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Definitions:

Acadian Orogeny

A middle Paleozoic mountain-building event in eastern North America; occurred when a series of landmasses, referred to as Avalonia, collided with the eastern coast of North America.

Seafloor Spreading

The process by which new oceanic crust is formed as magma rises to the surface at mid-ocean ridges and solidifies, pushing older crust away from the ridge.

Accretionary Prism

A wedge-shaped mass of sediment and rock scraped off the top of a downgoing tectonic plate at a convergent plate boundary, often leading to the formation of new land.

Volcanic Mountain Belt

A region typically found at convergent plate boundaries, characterized by a series of volcanoes formed from the melting of subducted lithosphere.