Answer:
Claim 2 has to be eliminated
The young rock (mountain) becomes old.
Explanation:
All the mountains of the world are either young (high mountains such as the Himalaya) or old (low mountains such as the Pyrenees mountains). The latter is a low mountain range because time has had its erosive effect.
There is no such thing as minerals going from one rock or mountain to the other because there is only one. And it´s young or (becomes) old.
The answer would be a. semicolon because the semi-colon can be used to replace conjunctions in a sentence.
The answer is C) cause and effect because if it explores the relationship between and action and it's consequences you would be talking about a cause and then it's effect of what happened.
"shed" is the noun that is the object.