Excerpt from asteroids kathy hufford space is a rocky place. the biggest space rocks are asteroids. asteroids are made up of rock and iron, like the four planets closest to our sun. they are different from comets, which are mostly rock and ice. comets have tails. asteroids are more like planets and moons. scientists often call asteroids minor planets. some asteroids even have their own moons. when the galileo spacecraft flew past asteroid ida in 1993, scientists were surprised to find it had a little buddy. they named the tiny moon dactyl. most asteroids orbit the sun between mars and jupiter. this area is called the asteroid belt. there are millions of asteroids and one dwarf planet, ceres. ceres was the first thing discovered in the asteroid belt, probably because it was the easiest to see. it is about 600 miles around. this is way smaller than our moon, which is 2,159 miles around, but still pretty big. asteroids are not easy to spot because they often look like very dark blobs against the darkness of outer space. which choice best gives the meaning of the word pretty in this sentence from the passage? a) amazingly b) beautifully c) fairly d) really

Which type of novel is characterized by complex characters, often with mixed motives, rooted in a highly developed social structure? a. gothic b. realistic c. psychological d. historical

Which of the following statements from "letter from birmingham jail" does not specifically dr. king to establish credibility with the white clergymen? question 6 options: just as the apostle paul left his village of tarsus and carried the gospel of jesus christ to the far corners of the greco roman world, so am i compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own town. my dear fellow clergymen: while confined here in the birmingham city jail, i came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." i have the honor of serving as president of the southern christian leadership conference, an organization operating in every southern state, with headquarters in atlanta, georgia.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion