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Expression of Ideas practice question
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
- Several animals navigate using the Earth's magnetic field.
- Loggerhead turtles use it to find their way across the Atlantic.
- European robins sense it with a protein in their eyes.
- Some bacteria contain magnetic crystals that align them with the field.
The student wants to illustrate the first note with a single example. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
- A. Loggerhead turtles, for instance, use the Earth's magnetic field to navigate across the Atlantic.Correct
- B. Several animals navigate magnetically.
- C. Turtles, robins, and bacteria are living things.
- D. The Earth has a magnetic field.
Answer: A. Loggerhead turtles, for instance, use the Earth's magnetic field to navigate across the Atlantic.
One animal, one feat.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Several animals navigate magnetically.
- Restates the claim.
- C. Turtles, robins, and bacteria are living things.
- Names organisms without the navigation.
- D. The Earth has a magnetic field.
- A generality.
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