Independent regulatory agencies such as the federal trade commission

a. not part of the government's executive branch.
b. outside the major departments of the government's executive branch.
c. subagencies of executive agencies.
d. subject to more executive authority than executive agencies.

They are outside the major departments of the government executive branch

Explanation:

The Federal Commission was mainly founded to assist and prevent the unfair methods of trade and commerce between countries. Its main function is to top the unfair deceptive and the fraudulent practices which are done in business.

They maintain and develop the rules and regulations to maintain a fair competency. They develop many websites to monitor all the activities and the business deals. If any fraudulent is identified in the business one can report it in the website and immediate action will be taken.

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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)