A cold water current travels along the West Coast of California making it cooler than you would expect for their latitude. The cold water current comes from Alaska and other northern bodies of water going southward and to the West Coast.
Given the choices, your answer would be the first statement.
Explanation:
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The formation of islands far from these boundaries can often also be explained by plate tectonics. Hotspots, or "huge columns of upwelling lava called 'plumes'", sit underneath a tectonic plate and push up through the crust. As the plate moves over the spot, new volcanoes form a chain of islands.
