Answer:
A hot and very swampy environment, full of plants and stagnant water
Explanation:
This photograph shows a mountainside with exposed coal beds interlayered with sandstone and shale. The coal was formed as debris from the landscape and was gradually buried 4 to 10 km deep over a very long period of time.
Under a hot conditions, and very swampy environment, full of plants and stagnant water are the coal beds formed from.
Both of them are the most important cities in their countries. They are capitals and cultural, demographic and industrial centres.
b) warm & wet
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That would be the Gobi desert.
It belongs to the lithosphere