Rural settlement means people living in rural areas, that is, not in the cities (which are urban areas).
Less and less people live in rural areas because there are less jobs there than in the city as our farming becomes more and more industrialized - before more people had to work on the farm, as more things had to be done by hand.
I think the correct answer from the choices listed above is option A. The evidence that Wegener make use of to develop the theory of continental drift would be that similar fossils were found on different continents. H<span>is hypothesis proposed that the continents had once been joined, and over time had drifted apart.</span>
<em>A natural resource that enables the operation with most of China's power plants is;</em>
B. Coal
<u>Coal has been one of the most exploited form of natural resource because of its great amount of chemical energy in it. </u>
Alaska (USA) in west, 12 US states of the continental United States in south, Greenland (an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark), and Saint Pierre and Miquelon (an island which belongs to France).
