[1] Allow 1 credit for fusion or nuclear fusion.

[1] Allow 1 credit for a vertical line drawn anywhere through the shaded area shown below. The line does not have to be perfectly vertical.

[1] Allow 1 credit. Acceptable responses include, but are not limited to:
- Aldebaran is larger than the Sun.
-  The Sun is smaller than Aldebaran.

[1] Allow 1 credit for Devonian Period.

[1] Allow 1 credit for Pleurodictyum.

[1] Allow 1 credit. Acceptable responses include, but are not limited to:
-  widespread geographic distribution

[1] Allow 1 credit. Acceptable responses include, but are not limited to:
-  The organisms lived in a shallow sea.
-  They lived in a marine environment.

[1] Allow 1 credit. Acceptable responses include, but are not limited to:
-  There is no contact metamorphism between rock unit A and the sandstone.
-   An unconformity exists between the igneous intrusion and sandstone layer.

[2] Allow a maximum of 2 credits, allocated as follows:
• Allow 2 credits it all four responses are correct. Acceptable responses include, but are not limited to:

Granitic bedrock	Â
Texture:Â	Density:Â
- coarse	-  low densityÂ
- nonvesicular	-  2.7 g/cm3
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Basaltic bedrockÂ	Â
Texture:	Density:
-  fine  Â	-   high densityÂ
-  vesicular or nonvesicularÂ	-   3.0 g/cm3Â

• Allow 1 credit if only two or three of the responses for the textures and densities are correct.

[1] Allow 1 credit if both minerals are correct. Acceptable responses include, but are not limited to:
-   olivine
-   pyroxene or augite
-   plagioclase or plagioclase feldspar
Note: Do not accept “feldspar” only.

[1] Allow 1 credit. Acceptable responses include, but are not limited to:
-   rigid mantle
-   uppermost part of the mantle

[1] Allow 1 credit if the center of the X is located within the shaded area shown. Also allow credit if a symbol other than X is used.

[1] Allow 1 credit for 74° W. The correct unit and compass direction must be included in the answer.

[1] Allow 1 credit if both the name of the geologic age and the name of the bedrock are correct. Acceptable responses include, but are not limited to:
Geologic age: - Proterozoic
- Middle Proterozoic
- Precambrian
- about 1000 million years
Name of bedrock: -   anorthositic
-   anorthositic

[1] Allow 1 credit. Acceptable responses include, but are not limited to:
-   Allegheny Plateau
-   Appalachian Plateau (uplands)
-   Catskills

[2] Allow a maximum of 2 credits, allocated as follows:
• Allow 2 credits if five or six processes are correctly identified.

• Allow 1 credit if only three or four processes are correctly identified.

[1] Allow 1 credit. Acceptable responses include, but are not limited to:
-   trench
-   Peru-Chile trench
-   a subduction zone
-   a convergent boundary
-   a fault

[1] Allow 1 credit. Acceptable responses include, but are not limited to:
-   divergence
-   seafloor spreading

[1] Allow 1 credit for a correctly drawn line. The line may be curved or straight, and the lowest point should be at the mid-ocean ridge.

[2] Allow a maximum of 2 credits, allocated as follows:

• Allow 2 credits it an X is correctly placed on each of the six towns, and a line correctly connects the six towns in the order described in the article. The arrow should point eastward and does not need to be at the end of the line.

• Allow 1 credit if an X is correctly placed on only four or five towns, and a line correctly connects the four or five towns in the order described in the article. The arrow should point eastward and does not need to be at the end of the line.

or

• Allow 1 credit it an X is correctly placed on each of the six towns, but the line and/or the arrow has been incorrectly drawn or omitted.

Note: Also allow credit if a symbol other than X is used.

[1] Allow 1 credit for two correct responses. Allow credit for either upper or lower-case letters. For example, allow credit for MT or Mt or mt or mT. Acceptable responses include, but are not limited to:
-   cP and mT
-   mT and cP
-   mT and cA
-   cA and mT
Note: Do not allow credit if the letters are reversed, eg., Tm.

[1] Allow 1 credit for cold front.

[1] Allow 1 credit if three or four classifications are correct, as shown below.

[1] Allow 1 credit for 0.7 mi/m.

[1] Allow 1 credit if the centers of ten, eleven, or twelve plotted Xs are within the circles shown and the Xs are correctly connected with a line.

[1] Allow 1 credit. Acceptable responses include, but are not limited to:
-   Birdsville is located inland near the center of the continent.
-   Bundaberg is located near a large body of water (the ocean) that moderates climate temperatures.

[1] Allow 1 credit. Acceptable responses include, but are not limited to:
-   Bundaberg is located near the ocean.
-   Birdsville is located inland.
-   The warm ocean current affects the climate of Bundaberg.
-   Bundaberg is located on the Windward side of the mountain.

[1] Allow 1 credit. Acceptable responses include, but are not limited to:
-   Bundaberg is located east of Birdsville.
-   Birdsville is west of Bundaberg.
-   Earth rotates west to east.

[1] Allow 1 credit for drawing a horizontal line at 30° S latitude within the shaded area shown below.

[1] Allow 1 credit for any value from 400 to 600 million km.

[1] Allow 1 credit. Acceptable responses include, but are not limited to:
-   Asteroid 1994 XL1 was very small.
-   The asteroid was 100,000 times fainter than the naked eye could see.
-   Asteroid 1994 XL1 was dark colored.

[1] Allow 1 credit for 65 million yr.