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Texas EOC English 2: 2.1 Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts 188 Views


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Texas EOC English 2: Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts Drill 2, Problem 1

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

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jour Brought to you by brackish water Great for creating

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biodiversity Bad for making kool aid It's really Gross All

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right take the following passage yet again Estuary particle momentum

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in criminal hands running a barrier island title Shelter community

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wants anybody All right here we go Paragraph two compares

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estuaries to other types of environments in order to uh

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what and hear the potential answers sample hill street important

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All right So if this passages about estuaries why does

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the a bother telling us about other environments Well option

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a doesn't have it right The passage never goes so

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far as to say that estuaries air somehow better than

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other environments Them's fighting words people especially here in texas

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see isn't right either The passage has a bigger goal

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than to simply list other types of environments This article's

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about estuaries so there's a good chance that everything has

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to relate to these specific environment somehow Now what about

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d He sounds smart but it gets away from the

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main idea of the passage We're focused on estuaries Here's

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remember people Yeah So see you later Choice choice b

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is the right answer Support the statement that the estuarine

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environments are among the most productive on earth right Love

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that work estuary second paragraph begins by stating it outright

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And then it goes on to talk about how estuaries

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produced more organic material than similarly sized forest grasslands and

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agricultural land This is proven every year when estuaries dominated

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the annual organic material producing contest won the gold medal

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nine thousand years in a row and you should check 00:01:47.926 --> [endTime] it out if you have a thing for muck

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