The correct answer is letter C. Throughout the history of America, land grants have not been very common. As this was a practice that governments did not approve of because of the ancestral settlers that inhabited the areas first. This was a long debate that have spun through the ages and many conflicts arose from this problem.
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