Flexo trucking company transports hazard­ous waste. garn is a flexo driver, whom the company knows drives longer hours than federal regula­tions permit. one night, garn exceeds the limit and has an accident. spilled chemicals contaminate hill city’s water source, forcing the residents to move away. flexo acted unethically because a. flexo showed reckless disregard for hill city’s residents and others. b. garn exceeded the federal time limit. c. harm was caused by an unfortunate accident. d. hill city should have better protected its water source.

The correct answer would be option B. Garn exceeded the federal time limit

Explanation:

Most jurisdictions in the world regulate the number of hours a truck driver can drive without taking a rest. This is because driving for long hours, without rest of sleep can cause a driver to make wrong decisions and cause an accident.

In this case, the accident was directly caused by Gran because he was breaking the law and has exceeded limits. This lead to a local disaster which might be dangerous and will definitely cost a lot of money to clean up.

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)