Logic of a solution: *Soil can be depleted of nutrients. Wampanucket soils are prime farmland soils. Farmland can be depleted of nutrients.*
*(G)*
The original question: *If not managed properly, nutrients can be depleted on
Options:
- (A) environment
- (B) Dehydration
- (C) fronts
- (D) our planet
- (E) coastlines
- (F) the skin
- (G) farmland
- (H) Power plants*
Line 1: *Some birds are pollinators that co-evolved with plants. If the plant is green, it is a producer. Some birds are pollinators that co-evolved with producers.*
*(D)*
Line 2: *Some birds are pollinators that co-evolved with what other type of organism?
Options:
- (A) animals
- (B) humans
- (C) vegetation
- (D) producers
- (E) parasites
- (F) warm-blooded
- (G) Conifers
- (H) mammals*
Logic of a solution: *Evaporation of sweat uses energy, and the energy comes from body heat. Sweat glands pump perspiration through pores. Perspiration comes through pores and is evaporated by energy from body heat.*
*(F)*
The original question: *Where does the energy to evaporate perspiration come from?
Options:
- (A) heat produced
- (B) The Sun
- (C) goosebumps
- (D) electrical energy
- (E) kinetic force
- (F) body heat
- (G) heat energy
- (H) energy*
Line 1: *Corals form large colonies in shallow tropical water. Water is shallow at the shore with gradual deepening. Corals form large colonies at the shoreline.*
*(D)*
Line 2: *Where do corals form large colonies?
Options:
- (A) Mars
- (B) new World
- (C) Sediment
- (D) shoreline
- (E) environment
- (F) Absorb light
- (G) loose soil
- (H) polyps*
Logic of a solution: *Energy is passed up a food chain or web from lower to higher trophic levels. Animals which are consumers constitute higher trophic levels. Energy is passed up a food chain or web from producers to consumers.*
*(F)*
The original question: *Energy is passed up the food chain or web from producers to whom?
Options:
- (A) animals
- (B) plants
- (C) glucose
- (D) our planet
- (E) chloroplasts
- (F) consumers
- (G) photosynthesizers
- (H) people*
Logic of a solution: *Coral reefs provide food and shelter to many ocean organisms. Reef-building corals are hermatypic. Hermatypic organisms provide food and shelter to many ocean organisms.*
*(B)*
The original question:
*Hermatypic organisms provide what to many ocean organisms?
Options:
- (A) survival
- (B) food and shelter
- (C) competition
- (D) kinetic energy
- (E) produce light
- (F) important habitats
- (G) protect them
- (H) major threat to health*