What is the relationship between the size of meteorites and the number of a given size?
A) There are an equal number of small, medium, and large meteorites of any given type.
B) There are few small, a moderate number of larger, and many giant meteorites of any given type.
C) There are many small, many medium-sized, but no giant meteorites.
D) There are many small, a moderate number of larger, and few giant meteorites of any given type.
E) There are medium and large meteorites but no small meteorites of equivalent type.

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The distribution of meteorite sizes follows a power-law distribution, meaning that there are many small meteorites, a moderate number of larger meteorites, and very few giant meteorites. This distribution can be seen in the frequency-size distribution graph, where the number of meteorites decreases sharply as their size increases. Therefore, choice D is the best answer.

What Is the Relationship Between the Size of Meteorites and the Number