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Banner A
Current continental arrangement
Banner B
Banner C
Figure 26.1
Current
continental arrangement on
planet Malleable and the three
banners used by three political
parties in the election.
Question 5
(Uses understanding from Chapter 9.)
The planet
Malleable
is fascinating. In many respects it is identical to the Earth. It
has identical dimensions and is located in a solar system identical to ours. It rotates
around an identical sun, in an identical orbit, and its solar declination changes
seasonally as does the Earth's. Moreover, on average, the relative area of oceans and
continents is the same as that on Earth. The planet is the adopted home to an
advanced civilization that can manipulate the location of the continents on
Malleable
's surface. When it was settled, the 'Founding Fathers' of
Malleable
chose
to distribute these continents as shown in Fig. 26.1.
The planet
Malleable
is governed by a single planetary government. It is election
year and three main parties are seeking election. They are as follows.
The
Reduce Warm Deserts
(
RWD
) Party, whose platform is to redefine the
continents so as to reduce the non-productive continental areas that are deserts
on planet
Malleable.
The
Reduce Tropical Storms
(
RTS
) Party, whose platform is to redefine the conti-
nents so as to reduce the 'seed areas' for tropical storms on planet
Malleable
.
The
Maximize Monsoons
(MM) Party, the central theme of whose platform is to
enhance seasonal precipitation in subtropical regions and thus allow the
production of additional seasonal crops on planet
Malleable
.
Each political party has devised a banner that expresses their ideas symbolically by
approximately representing the new continental distributions they are respectively
suggesting. As the most effective printer on
Malleable
, you have been awarded the
