The factor that helped the United States in making the inland transportation and commerce to be possible is in letter C. The intricate river system. I hope you are satisfied with my answer and feel free to ask for more if you have clarifications and questions.
Answer:
d) The lithosphere is broken into sections called plates.
Explanation:
Plate tectonics is the movement of the lithosphere and is responsible for such phenomena as volcanoes and earthquakes. The lithosphere is the exterior layer of the earth about a hundred kilometers thick. This layer is broken into large sized plates, about seven medium plates and numerous smaller plates.
These plates move a couple of inches every year from each other and are the cause of volcanoes and earthquakes.
Urban Sprawl is pretty much the migration of a population from a populated city or town to rural land
The polar ice capes, the change in genetics of certain animal fossils (growing more or less hair, etc. etc.)