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Here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by swamps and marshes.

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Did you hear the one about the guy who illegally parked in a swamp? His car

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got toad. (towed)

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Here's a passage about pythons, and viewpoints by two scientists.

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Which of the following would be most interested in using modeling to predict the current areas

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habitable by the python, in order to test which areas may be habitable in the future?

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So, what's this question asking?

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Looks like an inference question! Wait, what is inferring again?

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Well, we can infer our grandpa likes butterscotch candy because wrappers keep falling out of

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his sleeves. But in this case, we can infer which scientist

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would be most interested in modeling by reading their passages.

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Scientist 1 doesn't seem particularly into modeling. In fact, most of his time is spent

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ranting about the USGS. It's not going to be option A.

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Scientist 2, on the other hand, is all about modeling. We didn't even have to dig very

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deep for this one his first word gave it away. Seems like he would be pretty interested in

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modeling areas to predict future habitats. OK, let's bring this to a vote. All those

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