Which of the following statements are false?
A) The Soviet system bound the economic geography of the republics to the center.
B) The absence of competition in the Soviet Union made managers complacent.
C) Often, the Soviet Union assigned the production of particular good to particular locations, ignoring basic principles of economic geography.
D) The Soviet economy was a tremendous success story; the USSR would still be together if it were not for the ethnic differences.

D) The Soviet economy was a tremendous success story; the USSR would still be together if it were not for the ethnic differences.

Explanation:

The Soviet economy was not a tremendous success, in fact, it was in many aspects a failure (although it was a success in some fields).

The other 3, true statements in the question give us a clue why:

The Soviet system benefited the center (Russia) disproportionally, leaving aside the other, peripheral republics in Central Asia, the Caucasus, The Baltics, and Eastern Europe, which were often very poor.

The Soviet system used a planned economy, instead of a market economy, and this led to many errors in the production of goods and services. Resources were often poured in unprofitable industries over more profitable ones, and the geographical location of the economic sectors often did not make sense.

Things that in a market system would likely not happen, ocurred in the soviet planned economy because the planners did not realize their mistakes.

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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