Country X specializes in the production of electronics. Country Y specializes in the production of textiles. The governments of the two countries signed a trade agreement last month to make it easier and cheaper to trade goods across their border. Claudia worked at an electronics factory in country X but lost her job two years ago. Last week, the company called and offered her a job, because it needs to hire more people to keep up with demand. David works at a textile factory in country Y. His manager has asked him to work overtime to fulfill the demand for the company’s textiles. He happily accepts, because he hopes to help his son and daughter with their college expenses next year. Why might countries X and Y have decided to sign this trade agreement?

Countries X and Y signed the trade agreement to increase demand for goods, output, and employment in their countries.

Explanation:

Countries X and Y signed the trade agreement to increase the demand for goods, employment in their countries and output.

Explanation:

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the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)

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