Which natural resources are found in the southern region?

diamonds
forests
natural gas
petroleum
shrimp
zinc

In the Southern region of the USA, you will find forests (hard and soft wood) with many paper mills like International Paper, Williamette,etc., natural gas wells (big source in Louisiana called the Haynesville Shale), petroleum (land and off shore rigs, think BP, Exxon, etc.), and shrimp is a staple of the Gulf of Mexico with shrimpers from Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. The only place to find diamonds in the entire USA is in Arkansas where you can go dig for yourself and keep any stones you find. The only active zinc mines are in Tenn. and Missouri.

the wrong statement is - c. a desert had more biodiversity than a marsh.

the deserts are one of the places of the planet where there's the least biodiversity. the reasons for that are the climate and the lack of food sources, which hampers both the number of the species that can survive in it, and the number of the individuals in the species itself.

the marshes, on the other hand, are places where there's perfect conditions for lots of organisms to thrive. the temperature is moderate and nice, the amount of water and the food sources are on a high level, so there's an abundance of both plant and animal life in them.