The united states has some of the world's largest resources of all the following minerals except

Gold

A renewable resource is a substance of economic value which can be replenished or replaced either through natural recurring processes or biological reproduction.

Biomass is a biological material taken from plants or plant-based materials.

Biomass is considered a renewable resource because plants and plant-based materials can be found everywhere and once used these plants will continue to grow and supply the demand for biomass consumption.

since there isn't any suggested answers i will give you the reason and hopefully you can figure it

south africa, or rather all of africa, has not been in the location in which it is nowadays throughout the geological past. after the super-continent pangaea started to break apart, gondwanaland, in which was africa, moved further south, and parts of it came to be very close to the south pole. because the climate in this part of the world is very cold due to the very dispersed sun rays in there, what is now south africa, started to freeze, and the conditions were right for the formation of glaciers. the glaciers existed up until the period when gondwanaland started to break apart and what is now africa started to move towards north, sp it warmed up and the glaciers melted.

the answer will be b