Under Which Condition Would a Body of Rock Be Most

question 39

Multiple Choice

Under which condition would a body of rock be most likely to exhibit brittle behavior?

• A) slow rate of deformation
• B) low temperature
• C) high temperature
• D) high pressure

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Definitions:

Subcontraries

In traditional logic, propositions that cannot both be false but can both be true, specific within the square of opposition.

Subalternates

In logic, these refer to propositions that are related in such a way that the truth of one implies the truth of the other, but not necessarily vice versa.

Contradictories

In logic, statements that are in direct opposition to each other, where if one is true, the other must be false, and vice versa.

Converses

Statements in which the hypothesis and the conclusion (or subject and predicate) are switched in places.