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Conclusion Being near woodlands, the natural habitat of bees, promotes the health of crops that depend on pollination. █████ ███ ████ ██████ ████████████ █████ ███████ ███ ████ █████████ ████ █████ ████ ████ █████ ███████ █████ ██ ██████████
Summarize Argument
The author concludes that being near woodlands promotes crop health for crops that depend on pollination. This is because bees visit flowers close to woodlands far more often than flowers far from woodlands.
Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that the frequency with which a bee visits a flower has an effect on its pollination. If bees only need to visit a flower once to pollinate it, then additional visits would make little difference.
2.
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a
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The more often bees visit a plant, the more likely the plant is to be pollinated. This stregnthens the argument that being close to woodlands is beneficial to crops that depend on pollination due to the higher number of bees visiting.
b
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We already know that woodlands are bees' natural habitat, and that bees visit flowers near woodlands more often. Saying that some bees live elsewhere doesn't change that, and doesn't do anything to strengthen the argument.
c
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If we knew how many pollinators lived elsewhere, and where they lived, this might actually weaken the argument by reducing the importance of bees. But since we don't know those things, this is irrelevant.
d
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Like (C), this could only make a difference if we had much more information. And even if we had more detail, this could only potentially weaken by offering an alternative to bees; it wouldn't strengthen.
e
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The argument is about how crops' location affects their chance of pollination. Where farmers are choosing to plant pollination-dependent crops is irrelevant to which environments are best for them.