How did life on earth begin ?

The rocky mountain system stretching from canada to new mexico is a string of mountains running along the wester united states. what factors would mostly cause this arrangement of mountains? intense pressure undemeath a tectonie plate that could not breakthrough the rock subduction of a tectonic plate, which pushed up a neighboring plate into mountains two plates located at a diverging boundary with a third plate rising between them two plates that melted into molten rock, which later cooled into the shape of mountains

Is water wet? and is fire on fire?

In the following diagram, four different index fossils are labeled: which of the labeled fossils comes from the oldest organism? a b c d