Maldives is a country on the map is actually made up of small islands...
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The answer is C because the earth gets hotter as you go deeper into it therefore the continental crust which is the outside would be the coolest. The inner core is the hottest then the outer core then the mantle and then the crust would be the coolest.
Cooled quickly, because lava cools and crystallizes rapidly
Tectonic activity that thrust mountains up from the ocean. floor because volcanoes come from the center of the earth and when the tectonic plates move it causes some of the lava from the inside of the earth to emerge and come to the surface where the ocean is and forms into an island (s).
They're both located on the continent of Asia, if that helps a bit.
