Answer: 3.friction
Explanation: friction is a force of resistance acting between objects in contact and tending to dampen their motion
Easter Island is a small 63-square-mile patch of land — more than a thousand miles from the next inhabited spot in the Pacific Ocean. In A.D. 1200 (or thereabouts), a small group of Polynesians — it might have been a single family — made their way there, settled in and began to farm. When they arrived, the place was covered with trees — as many as 16 million of them, some towering 100 feet high.
These settlers were farmers, practicing slash-and-burn agriculture, so they burned down woods, opened spaces, and began to multiply. Pretty soon the island had too many people, too few trees, and then, in only a few generations, no trees at all.
A. The conditions under which the organism died and how it was buried.
Reason for Answer: This is because fossils are used to determine the relative age of sedimentary rocks and are used to provide information on past climates, environments, and many more.