Question 15 (1 point) A scientist is studying the classification of three species of birds, labeled Bird A, Bird
B, and Bird C. According to a field guide on birds, Bird A and B are very closely
related while Bird C is a more distant relative. However, the scientist concludes that
the field guide is wrong, and that Birds A and C are the closest pair of
relatives. Which finding would provide the strongest evidence in support of the
scientist's conclusion?
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2
Birds A and C share more genetically derived characters with one another than
with Bird B
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Birds A and C are about the same size, while Bird B is much larger
O Birds A and C exist in large, healthy populations, while Bird B is endangered
O Birds A and C live together in the same region, while B lives farther away

from almost the creation of the first true maps of the earth, people started seeing how continents would be able to fit together.   in particular, people noticed that south america fits almost exactly into africa.

you should be aware that while world maps were around early in the 1600’s and better defined by the end of the 1700’s, those maps were not ‘public’ but were treated as state secrets.   and so it was not till much later that the broader ‘science’ community had access to good quality and accurate world maps.

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it is now known that most of the major continental masses can be fit together in a jigsaw process.   in fact we now know that the continents were indeed once all joined together as one land mass – the supercontinent of pangaea.

if you look at most world maps you will ponder how this is evidence, as the continents really don’t appear to ‘fit’ together very well.   what you need to understand is that the vast majority of maps are drawn using a map projection that has the north and south poles (which are points) are a line the width of the map at the top and bottom.   this means that the map distorts the true shape of the earth’s land and oceans as you love closer to the poles.     some other map projections distort less, but have the map shape looking like segments of an orange.   see here for a range of map projections.   check out the way greenland changes size in each!

what is more remarkable, is the next piece of evidence when added to the shape of continents.

location of mountains and fossils

what is remarkable, when you reassemble all the continents together, the ancient mountain ranges (many now eroded to their cores) and the location of rock types and fossils all match up.

well first you need the sample of the temperature and gas level. i couldnt write a hypothesis unless i had some data. i think temperature changes will effect volumes of gas because gas changed into a solid or liquid at specific temperatures.

answer: d. load

a river's load refers to the natural phenomena in which the sediments, rocks   stones, boulders and other deposits are removed and picked from the bottom bed of the river due to the abrasion resulted by the high speed water current.