Information and IdeasHardFinding supporting a claim about a mechanism
Information and Ideas practice question
A botanist claims that the meadow's cowslips have spread along the footpath because walkers carry the seeds on their boots.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the botanist's claim?
- A. New cowslip plants appear only within a metre of the path, and their density falls with distance from the car park where walks begin.Correct
- B. Cowslips produce many seeds.
- C. The meadow is popular with walkers.
- D. Cowslips grow in other meadows too.
Answer: A. New cowslip plants appear only within a metre of the path, and their density falls with distance from the car park where walks begin.
Along the path only, thinning away from where boots start.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Cowslips produce many seeds.
- Doesn't link seeds to boots.
- C. The meadow is popular with walkers.
- The premise.
- D. Cowslips grow in other meadows too.
- Irrelevant.
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