Hi @Ro13, @Ceci, thanks for your posts. We are asked to identify the statement about purple loosestrife with which both passage authors would be most likely to agree. We need textual support from each passage.
Answer choice (A) states of purple loosestrife that, "as it increases in N. America, some wildlife populations tend to decrease." Is there textual support for this answer in Passage A? Yes - at lines 11-12 ("serious reductions in waterfowl and aquatic furbearer productivity have been observed"). Is there textual support for this answer in Passage B? Yes - at lines 53-55 ("no bird species other than the canvasback has been identified in the literature as endangered by purple loosestrife," which means that the author of Passage B acknowledges that the canvasback *is* threatened by purple loosestrife).
Answer choice (B) can be eliminated because we cannot find textual support in Passage B sufficient to allow us to conclude that the author of Passage B would agree with this statement.
Hope this helps! Please let us know if you have any additional questions.
rboyer1996.ata@gmail.comNovember 30, 2020
Passage (B) does state that there will be a decline in the wetlands in the United states and Canada. in the final paragraph? can you help explain how this is not sufficient evidence for answer choice B? Thanks!
