Rhetorical Synthesis Lv Hard (Part1)

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• As engineered structures, many bird nests are uniquely flexible yet cohesive.
• A research team led by Yashraj Bhosale wanted to better understand the mechanics behind these structural properties.
• Bhosale’s team used laboratory models that simulated the arrangement of flexible sticks into nest-like structures.
• The researchers analyzed the points where sticks touched one another.
• When pressure was applied to the model nests, the number of contact points between the sticks increased, making the structures stiffer.

The student wants to present the primary aim of the research study. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• The Atlantic Monthly magazine was first published in 1857.
• The magazine focused on politics, art, and literature.
• In 2019, historian Cathryn Halverson published the book Faraway Women and the “Atlantic Monthly.”
• Its subject is female authors whose autobiographies appeared in the magazine in the early 1900s.
• One of the authors discussed is Juanita Harrison.

The student wants to introduce Cathryn Halverson’s book to an audience already familiar with the Atlantic Monthly.

Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

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While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• The factors that affect clutch size (the number of eggs laid at one time) have been well studied in birds but not in lizards.
• A team led by Shai Meiri of Tel Aviv University investigated which factors influence lizard clutch size.
• Meiri’s team obtained clutch-size and habitat data for over 3,900 lizard species and analyzed the data with statistical models.
• Larger clutch size was associated with environments in higher latitudes that have more seasonal change.
• Lizards in higher-latitude environments may lay larger clutches to take advantage of shorter windows of favorable conditions.

The student wants to emphasize the aim of the research study. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• African American women played prominent roles in the Civil Rights Movement, including at the famous 1963 March on Washington.
• Civil rights activist Anna Hedgeman, one of the march’s organizers, was a political adviser who had worked for President Truman.
• Civil rights activist Daisy Bates was a well-known journalist and advocate for school desegregation.
• Hedgeman worked behind the scenes to make sure a woman was included in the lineup of speakers at the march.
• Bates was the sole woman to speak, delivering a brief but memorable address to the cheering crowd.

The student wants to compare the two women’s contributions to the March on Washington. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• In North America, woodlands have expanded into areas that were once grasslands.
• Thomas Rogers and F. Leland Russell of Wichita State University investigated whether woodland expansion is related to changes in climate.
• Rogers and Russell analyzed core samples from oak trees on a site that was not wooded in the past and indexed the age of the trees with historical climate data to see if tree populations and climate were correlated.
• Tree population growth was associated with dry intervals.
• Droughts may have played a role in woodland expansion.

The student wants to emphasize the aim of the research study. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Ducklings expend up to 62.8% less energy when swimming in a line behind their mother than when swimming alone.
• The physics behind this energy savings hasn’t always been well understood.
• Naval architect Zhiming Yuan used computer simulations to study the effect of the mother duck’s wake.
• The study revealed that ducklings are pushed in a forward direction by the wake’s waves.
• Yuan determined this push reduces the effect of wave drag on the ducklings by 158%.

The student wants to present the study and its methodology. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Nissologists are scientists who study islands.
• Some nissologists define an island as any piece of land surrounded by water.
• Using that definition, they determined that Sweden has 221,000 islands.
• Other nissologists define an island as being 1 kilometer square, a certain distance from the mainland, and having at least 50 permanent residents.
• Using that definition, they determined that Sweden has 24 islands.

The student wants to make and support a generalization about nissologists’ definition of an island. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish these goals?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• In 1978, Sámi activists staged protests to block the construction of a dam on the Alta River in Norway.
• The dam would disrupt Sámi fishing and reindeer herding.
• The dam was ultimately built, but the Alta conflict had a lasting impact.
• It brought international attention to the issue of Sámi rights.
• It led to a set of 2005 legal protections establishing Sámi rights to lands, waters, and resources.

The student wants to make and support a generalization about the Alta conflict. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Cambodia’s Angkor Wat was built in the 1100s to honor the Hindu god Vishnu.
• It has been a Buddhist temple since the sixteenth century.
• Decorrelation stretch analysis is a novel digital imaging technique that enhances the contrast between colors in a photograph.
• Archaeologist Noel Hidalgo Tan applied decorrelation stretch analysis to photographs he had taken of Angkor Wat’s plaster walls.
• Tan’s analysis revealed hundreds of images unknown to researchers.

The student wants to present Tan’s research to an audience unfamiliar with Angkor Wat. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Stars form in a galaxy when gravity causes a massive cloud of dust and gas to collapse.
• A galaxy in a phase of rapid star formation is called a starburst galaxy.
• Quenching is a process in which a galaxy loses star-forming gas.
• A galaxy that no longer forms stars is called a quenched galaxy.
• A quenched galaxy has entered the poststarburst phase.

The student wants to explain what a quenched galaxy is. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Astronomers estimate that the number of comets orbiting the Sun is in the billions.
•  81P/Wild is one of many comets whose orbit has changed over time.
• 81P/Wild’s orbit once lay between the orbits of Uranus and Jupiter.
• The comet’s orbit is now positioned between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars.

The student wants to make and support a generalization about the orbits of comets. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish these goals?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• Neuroscientists Krishnan Padmanabhan and Zhen Chen sought to better understand the workings of the brain’s olfactory system.
• They devised a study using mathematical models.
• They found that certain fibers allow the brain to toggle from one method of processing smells to another.
• In one method, cells in the piriform cortex (where the perception of odor forms) capture olfactory information at a given moment.
• In the other, the cells track changes in olfactory information over time.

The student wants to summarize the study’s findings. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?