The crust makes up the land layer of the earth, also the top layer.
The Welsh are a Minority in the UK - they form one of the countries in the United Kingdom
The Kurds are a Minority in Turkey and Iraq- they have autonomy in Iraq
Bretons are in fact an ethnic minority in France - correct answer!
Chechens are a minority in Russia
Catalons are a minority in Spain ( and they seek independence).
The correct answer is fjord - a fjord is a long, narrow inlet of the sea bordered by steep cliffs - most of them caused by glacial erosion. Most of the fjords in the world can be seen in Scandinavia, where it's cold most of the time.
A plateau is like a valley, taiga is a type of a forest, and I'm not really sure what a timberline is, but I know it's not the correct answer.
I think in deep rock and under trenches the rock isn't brittle enough to transmit some seismic waves because it is more ductile or liquid under pressures of depth and temperature
You are near the equator, which is part of the tropical zone