LSAT 148 – Section 3 – Question 09

LSAT 148 - Section 3 - Question 09

December 2016

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT148 S3 Q09
+LR
+Exp
Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE
Causal Reasoning +CausR
Net Effect +NetEff
A
5%
155
B
1%
157
C
4%
156
D
85%
164
E
5%
154
136
145
154
 +Medium 149.233 +SubsectionMedium

There are many agricultural regions in North America where the growing season is long enough to allow pumpkin production well into autumn with no risk of frost. Nonetheless, pumpkin production in North America is concentrated in regions with long, cold winters, where the growing season is delayed and pumpkin crops are exposed to risk of damage or destruction by early autumn frosts.

"Surprising" Phenomenon
Why do we grow most North American pumpkins in regions with long, cold winters when there are many North American regions with longer growing seasons where pumpkins wouldn’t be exposed to early autumn frosts?

Objective
The right answer will describe some benefit of growing pumpkins in regions with long, cold winters, or else some drawback to growing pumpkins in the North American regions where there’s no risk of frost well into autumn.

A
Pumpkins are usually grown to reach maturity in autumn.
This is the opposite of what we need. If pumpkins reach maturity in autumn, we would presumably want a longer autumn in order to allow more pumpkins to reach maturity during the season.
B
Pumpkins depend on bees for pollination, and bees are active only in warm weather.
This is the opposite of what we need. If pumpkins depend on bees and warm weather for pollination, we would expect that it makes more sense to grow them in regions without long, cold winters.
C
More pumpkins are sold to consumers in regions of North America with long growing seasons than to those in regions with short growing seasons.
This is the opposite of what we need. If there were greater demand for pumpkins in regions with long growing seasons, that might be another reason why it would make sense to grow pumpkins there, rather than having to ship them from regions with shorter growing seasons.
D
Prolonged cold temperatures kill soil-borne fungus and other sources of disease that would kill or seriously damage pumpkins.
This is a benefit of growing pumpkins in regions with long, cold winters: during the winter, soil-borne fungus and other disease sources are killed off, leaving the soil safer for pumpkins during growing seasons. It makes more sense, then, that we grow pumpkins in these regions!
E
Most of the pumpkin seed used by growers in North America is produced in areas where the growing season is long, and plants used for seed production are protected in greenhouses.
This is the opposite of what we need. If pumpkin seeds were produced in regions with long growing seasons, that might be another reason why it would make sense to grow pumpkins there, rather than having to ship the seeds to other regions.

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