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Surplus discretionary travel direct money is what's available after paying for the necessities of life

The rocky mountain system stretching from canada to new mexico is a string of mountains running along the wester united states. what factors would mostly cause this arrangement of mountains? intense pressure undemeath a tectonie plate that could not breakthrough the rock subduction of a tectonic plate, which pushed up a neighboring plate into mountains two plates located at a diverging boundary with a third plate rising between them two plates that melted into molten rock, which later cooled into the shape of mountains

The great scientist alfred wegener proposed that continents have moved, while other scientists such as t. c.chamberlin argued against wegener. wegener's ideas eventually won, and are now widely accepted, because: a) wegener's ideas were more beautiful, and so were favored by the intellectual elite. b) wegener's ideas did a better job of predicting the results of new observations and experiments. c) wegener's ideas appealed to dead white european males, whereas chamberlin's didn't. d) wegener's ideas appalled dead white european males, and we all know that in this politically correct era, dead white european males cannot get a fair shake. e) wegener won the nobel prize.