The lithosphere includes
a) a blanket of air that surrounds earth's surface.
b) all of earth's water.
c) all plants, animals, and people.
d) the rocks, minerals, and solid inorganic parts of earth.

answer; (wisconsin);

explanation: the badger state. this nickname originally referred to the lead miners, of the 1830s, who worked at the galena lead mines in illinois. these mines were in northwestern illinois close to the borders of wisconsin and iowa. the wisconsin miners lived, not in houses, but in temporary caves cut into the hillsides.