May 18, 2009 Dear Mr. Kline: In two weeks our middle school will be hosting a basketball fundraiser. The event will help fund the new athletic field being built this summer. As you are a former student and member of the basketball team, I thought that you might be interested in participating. The event will have many different contests including free throwing and ball dribbling competitions. The current basketball team is hosting the event, and we hope that you will attend. Sincerely, Amelia Grady Which is the BEST topic sentence for this letter? A) Amelia Grady likes the middle school fundraiser. B) The basketball team at Kennedy Middle School enjoys helping its community. C) Kennedy Middle School wants to get the community involved in its activities. D) Kennedy Middle School has organized an event in which you may be interested.

so, colonists did not want to pay any taxes.  

colonists did not consider themselves british citizens.  

colonists felt no sense of obligation to britain.  

colonists objected to violations of their natural rights. are the answer choices?

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)

answer; did not understand that the act was wrong because she/he was suffering from a mental illness;