It is slowly growing, mostly due to immigration
Deserts are A) dry with little organic matter. Although it seems that D might be correct in fact it is not because desert soil is not totally unable to support plant life because in fact some plants grow in the desert and especially following a rain storm the desert can bloom with plant life.
Hydrogen. That is how it is continuing to heat, the Hydrogen atoms are fusing to form Hydrogen, but at this point the majority is Hydrogen, eventually it will be majorly Helium, then Carbon.
It tells you that there used to be an ocean in the area the rock was found.
Answer
Britain acquired Canada from France through the Treaty of Paris, at the end of the Seven Year War
Explanation
In 1763 there was an issue of the Royal Proclamation by King George 111 following the acquisition of French territory. Canada was by then under British rule at the beginning of 1763 Treaty of Paris. It is during this time which the New France that was including the Canada colony , formally became part of the British Empire.