Why did the author of "Solar Power for Public Buildings" write this piece? to inform readers about the history of harnessing energy from the sun and other resources

to entertain readers with a fun story about what life could be like in the near future

to teach readers solar energy can be harnessed and turned into electricity

to persuade readers that California should power many of its buildings with solar energy

Read the excerpt from "death by black hole."albert einstein's general theory of relativity, published in 1916, provides the insight to understand the bizarre structureof space and time in a high-gravity environment. later research by the american physicist john a. wheeler, and others, to formulate a vocabulary as well as the mathematical tools to describe and predict what a black hole will do toits surroundings.read the excerpt from "man listening to disc."and i bow deeply to thelonious monkfor figuring out a wayto motorize or whatever-his huge pianoso he could be with us today.these excerpts are similar because both texts

What evidence could be used to support the authors'claims in this excerpt? select three options.- tweets (twitter messages) describing the overthrow ofben ali at the time it happened- verifiable facts that explain that social media haslittle effect on citizen journalism-speeches that give biographical accounts of the life andaccomplishments of mubarak-journal entries from a student describing how socialmedia him join a protest- quotations from experts on social media use duringuprisings within the arab world

Which is it? the desert is than the mountains? 1. drier 2. more dry