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Information and Ideas practice question
A historian claims that the hedge along the lane is at least five hundred years old.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the historian's claim?
- A. The hedge contains six woody species per thirty-metre stretch, and a 1520 charter describes the lane as 'bounded by the old hedge'.Correct
- B. The hedge is trimmed every autumn.
- C. The hedge is two metres tall.
- D. Hawthorn grows in the hedge.
Answer: A. The hedge contains six woody species per thirty-metre stretch, and a 1520 charter describes the lane as 'bounded by the old hedge'.
Species richness suggests great age, and a 1520 record calls the hedge old already.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The hedge is trimmed every autumn.
- Maintenance doesn't date it.
- C. The hedge is two metres tall.
- Height doesn't date it.
- D. Hawthorn grows in the hedge.
- One common species doesn't date it.
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