In a market without price controls, market pressures push prices toward 1.shortage prices
2.equilibrium prices
3.surplus prices_.

The correct answer is 2.

When markets are allowed to freely fluctuate, prices tend to the equilibrium, the quantities supplied and demanded are equal and the market is cleared.

If the supply of a certain good drops due to a natural disaster, for example, there is an excess of demand and therefore there is a subsequent price increase, so that many consumers refuse to demand such product at a more expensive price, and the price rise continues until demand and supply are equaled again forming a new equilbrium.

When price controls are established, natural market movements are distorted. There are two situations:

the answer is typhoon

answer; i believe that the correct answer is (c) arctic tundra;