The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "2.) Plate tectonics, plate boundaries ." Plate tectonics cause earthquakes and volcanic activity at plate boundaries.
Here are the following choices:
1.) Fault lines, laccoliths
2.) Plate tectonics, plate boundaries
3.) Plate tectonics, the Ring of Fire
4.) Heat from Earth's mantle, fault lines
Pacific mountain system, series of mountain ranges that stretches along the Pacific Ocean coast of North America from northern British Columbia (Canada) to northwestern Mexico. They run for some 4,500 miles (7,250 km) in the United States and extend northward into Canada for another 1,000 miles (1,600 km).
Well, the hydrosphere is moving water to provide life for the biosphere. the geosphere is blocking the rain from the hydro and atmosphere from producing life past where it is blocking, so, in essence, the hydrosphere is "moved" into the atmosphere, where it drops onto the geosphere, creating the possibility for life in the biosphere everywhere that is not being "bullied" for lack of better term by the mountains blocking rain.