Dr. molina and his colleagues discovered that some man-made compounds were depleting the?
a. earth
b. rainforest
c. ozone layer
d. antarctica

The answer is C. Ozone layer

Mario Molina was a recipient, together with his mentor Frank Sherwood Rowland, of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in discovering that some man-made compounds, namely chlorofluorocarbon gases, were depleting the ozone layer.

tension is the type of stress that results when two tectonic plates diverge .

explanation:

a and b because with the other three, they simplify to something else.