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Texas EOC English 2: 2.2 Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts 165 Views


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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by a salt marsh which causes

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way less using than an infamous pepper martians We've been

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in a horrible state following passage Basic info Estuaries e

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p a saltwater restaurant compliment We've skimmed it before so

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we're just skimming it fast All right the reader can

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infer from the passage that estuaries are partially enclosed because

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what And here the potential answers Around All right well

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looks like once again it's inferring time we could get

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rid of be without having to infer anything Little common

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sense gets this one out of our hair Rivers are

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moving bodies of water and sewer oceans So how could

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a river and an ocean in close another body of

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water a notion would just turn everything into a more

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ocean Oceans are bossy like that You get out of

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here All right deacon go to it isn't supported by

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any information in the passage This one makes it sound

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like estuaries have some kind of force field around him

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that traps organisms inside the environment Like aliens No way

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to bring your a game D c maybe appealing because

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it's true that estuaries heir protected by the landforms that

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doesn't have anything to do with why they're partially enclosed

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Like where that come from All right well the correct

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answer is a They're contained by the land that surrounds

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the river or stream but open into the ocean where

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we go According to the passage estuaries are enclosed on

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some but not all sides got to keep those options

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open It makes sense that the estuaries are enclosed by

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the land that surrounds the river streams that are open

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to the ocean Then they can have that tasty mix

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of fresh and salt water that we all know and 00:01:46.913 --> [endTime] love well that certain wildlife notice Love anyway

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