The correct answer is - C. hot spots in the mantle.
The Hawaiian Islands are a volcanic islands. They are lying above a hot spot. The hot spot volcanoes, unlike the other ones, are far away from the boundaries of the tectonic plates and they are emerging on places were there's hot spots. These hot spots manage to penetrate through the crust and get the magma from the mantle up to the surface and create volcanic islands in meantime.
Answer: B.access to natural resources
The western United States has several different types of natural resources such as oil, gold, silver, coal, copper, lead, and timber.
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Explanation:
Lithosphere is the crust and upper mantle of the earth.
C, because it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea
