glaciers/ice caps should be the answer
I would say that if the state is successful in achieving a port and coastline it will most likely be elongated to extend its boundaries to a small length of coast so it can have at least one port for trading its goods much as Bolivia which is fairly compact in outline would have if it is successful in its bid to obtain some land taken by Chile in the War of the Pacific in the 1800's.
The wetlands at the mouth of the Mississippi river is disappearing majorly because of the human activities that have greatly altered and destroyed the habitat. Human activities such as dredging the wetland for canal, draining and filling for agriculture, grazing and development purposes, etc are the major reasons why the wetlands are disappearing.
The government is already pumping money into saving these wetlands.
Answer:
B. Has hot dry summers and cool wet winters
Explanation:
<em>The Mediterranean climate is characterized by warm to hot, dry summers and gentle rainy winters. This broad depiction, however, conceals significant differences, which may be explained by the existence of two geographical gradients between north and south, with a warmer and drier south, also west and east, which is impacted more by Atlantic and Asian circulation.</em>