Rahul sees a flock of birds. He watches as the flying birds land in neat little rows on several power lines. Which change of state does the motion of the birds most closely model?

The birds begin flying freely, then settle into neat rows, becoming more ordered and stationary. This most closely models deposition, in which a gas changes directly into a solid. The other choices involve changes that do not represent gas particles settling into an ordered solid.

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