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Select the option that best completes the analogy: Barometer : Pressure :: Seismograph : ?

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  • ARainfall
  • BHumidity
  • CEarth tremors
  • DWind speed

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The relation is instrument : the thing that instrument records. A barometer records atmospheric pressure; a seismograph records earth tremors. The distractors are quantities recorded by other instruments — rainfall by a rain gauge, humidity by a hygrometer, wind speed by an anemometer — so all three feel plausible until the instrument named is matched with its own reading.
Answer: C) Earth tremors

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