Question

read the selection and choose the best answer to each question. maggie wrote the following paragraph for a science paper. read the paragraph and look for corrections that maggie needs to make. then answer the questions that follow. a growing mountain (1) tectonic plates are giant slabs of rock underneath earth’s surface. (2) these plates move around in response to heat radiating up from our planets’ core. (3) mountains form when major plates colide and push earth’s crust upward. (4) fifty million years ago, the himalayan mountains of asia began to form in this way. (5) interestingly, this mountain chain, which includes mount everest, the tallest mountain on earth, is still forming. (6) the indian and asian plates continues to hit each other, forcing rock upward. (7) for this reason, mount everest is getting taller in fact it grows about half an inch every year. (8) today this mountain is almost 30,000 feet tall. 5. what change should be made in sentence 3? insert a comma after form change colide to collide change push to pushed change earth’s to earths

Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze each option:

• "Insert a comma after form": The sentence structure doesn't require a comma there, so this is incorrect.
• "Change collide to collide": Wait, no—wait, the original has a misspelling: "colide" should be "collide". So this option (correcting the spelling) is valid.
• "Change push to pushed": The verb "push" is in the present tense and matches the subject-verb agreement in the sentence (plural plates, present action), so this is incorrect.
• "Change Earth’s to Earths": "Earth’s" is the correct possessive form (showing that the crust belongs to Earth), so changing it would be wrong.

So the correct change is to fix the misspelled "colide" to "collide".

Answer:

B. Change colide to collide