Ocean Acidification Reading Answers

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Updated On Aug 14, 2024

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This article contains the Ocean Acidification reading answers.

Ocean Acidification is a real Reading test passage that appeared in the IELTS.

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Ocean Acidification

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Find the practice test with the Ocean Acidification PDF here.

Answers

The answers with explanations are given below

Question Number	Answers	Keywords	Location of Keywords
1.	(small) flaps	Swim in a way, resembles butterfly flight, propelled by	Paragraph A, Line 5
2.	(their/the) Shells	Still swimming, were visibly dissolving	Paragraph A, Line 7
3.	(about )1/3 / A Third	Seas have absorbed about a third of all the fossil-fuel carbon	Paragraph C, Lines 3-4
4.	Rocks (on land)	Release of carbonates from rocks on land	Paragraph D, Lines 2-3
5.	(over) 100,000	It took over 100,000 years, oceans to return to their normal state.	Paragraph E, Last 2 lines
6.	Fishing and Tourism (in any order)	Coral reefs, are likely to be affected, fishing and tourism-based, losing billions of dollars	Paragraph F, Lines 4-6
7.	coral(s)	organisms with aragonite structures, will be hardest hit.	Paragraph G, Last 2 lines
8.	microbes	Produce more volatile organic compounds	Paragraph H, Lines 6-7
9.	(the) atmosphere	Some of which escapes, causes clouds to develop	Paragraph H, Lines 7-8
10.	Clouds	Atmosphere, causes clouds to develop	Paragraph H, Line 8
11.	Cooler	More clouds, cooler conditions	Paragraph H, Lines 8-9
12.	Global warming	Cooler conditions, potentially slow global warming	Paragraph H, Last 2 lines
13.	C	CO2, marine ecosystems considerably.	–

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