TASK DEFINITION: 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.
PROBLEM: Question: When magnesium (Mg) metal is burned in the presence of oxygen (O?), magnesium oxide (MgO) is produced. The properties of magnesium oxide are different than the individual properties of magnesium and oxygen because magnesium oxide is?

SOLUTION: properties, magnesium, oxide, different, individual, properties, magnesium, oxygen, magnesium, oxide

PROBLEM: Question: Windy, cloudy, rainy, and cold are words that help describe (A) evaporation (B) deposition (C) matter (D) weather?

SOLUTION: cold, describe

PROBLEM: Question: When a mirror is placed by a fish bowl with a beta fish swimming inside, the beta fish sees what appears to be another fish. This occurs because of (A) absorption. (B) refraction. (C) reflection. (D) diffraction.?

SOLUTION:
mirror, bowl, beta, fish, sees, another, fish.