The revolutionary government saw enemies of the revolution everywhere. it passed laws that allowed it to arrest citizens on very little evidence. soon, no one felt safe. thousands of innocent prisoners were executed-some nobles, some priests, and some the ordinary "commoners" of france. a) true b) false

A) True

Explanation:

The so-called Law of Great Terror was adapted, by which anyone could be accused of working or speaking against the authorities or the Revolution (great for resolving misunderstandings with a hateful neighbor), and France was turned into a real slaughterhouse, and around 70 - 80 people were executed on a daily basis. Over the course of the Great Terror, around 400,000  people ended up in prisons, killing almost 50,000 of them.

It is logical that the first victims of the guillotine were members of the aristocracy, but over time anyone could end up on the guillotine because of the wrong step, wrong words or wrong views.

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)