You are given an elementary science question along with a few answer options. List all the words from the question that are essential and sufficient for choosing the correct answer option. Keep in mind that essential words are necessary to understand the meaning of the given question. However, non-essential words provide little information needed to select the correct answer. You can think about it like this: If the question was in another language, knowing the meaning of which words were necessary and enough for you to understand the question and answer it?. If your answer consists of multiple spans of words from the question, separate those using a comma (", "). Do not generate any word that is not present in the question. Make sure that your response is contained in the given question and the words are in the same order as the question.
 Grammatical correctness is not important.

Question: Which of the following is the BEST example of something that causes a slow change in the earth's surface? (A) rainbows (B) floods (C) global warming (D) glaciers?
BEST, example, causes, slow, change, earth's, surface?

Question: One way to protect against food poisoning is to (A) cook food to proper temperatures. (B) combine different types of food. (C) store food in glass containers. (D) defrost meat slowly on the counter.?
protect, food, poisoning

Question: A food chain shows how energy moves from one living thing to another. The chain always starts with ___. (A) a plant or plant part (B) the smallest animal (C) the animal that was eaten last (D) the largest animal?

food, chain, starts