I everyone! I just wanted to say to be careful of creeps on this app, there was someone today not being very nice to a little girl who was 10. Just be careful. If someone posts a zoom code, don't go on it, or if they ask for ur phone number or email or anything, just don't give it to them. Sry to interrupt ur work, just wanted to say. I'm 15, and I told my little brother about this, and if you are older, you should tell ur little sibling about things like this if they have online apps. Happy Holidays!!!

Read the following excerpt from "the city without us" by alan weisman: almost every other compound in nature contracts when frozen, but h20 (water) molecules do the opposite, organizing themselves into elegant hexagonal crystals that take up about 9 percent more space than they did when sloshing around in a liquid state. pretty six-sided crystals suggest snowflakes so gossamer it's hard to conceive of them pushing apart slabs of sidewalk. which statement best describes the effect of the metaphor on the excerpt's meaning? o a. it likens h2o molecules to hexagonal crystals, which are actually larger than people imagine. o b. it makes the frozen crystals seem like friends to the city to contrast with what a deceitful foe they are. o c. it compares the sloshing liquid to a river of water able to push apart the sidewalk o d. it compares the frozen crystals to delicately lacy snowflakes having an unexpected strength (apex)