I’m happy to help. As always, let’s start with the question stem. We are looking for an answer that cannot be inferred from information in the passage.
Answer A is incorrect because it can be inferred from the passage. Answer A states: decrease in atmospheric heat causes a decrease in the amount of carbon that rain washes into the oceans from the air.
Can we infer that from the passage? Yes, it is part of a longer causal chain.
The sentence that starts “a decrease in atmospheric carbon causes the [atmosphere to hold less heat] (our first clause in answer A) which causes decreased evaporation which causes less rain and [thus less carbon is washed into the oceans] (our second clause in answer A.)
Therefore, answer A can be inferred from information in the passage.
I hope that helps! Please let us know if you have further questions.
nizhoniSeptember 17, 2019
All of the answer choices can be directly supported from the stimulus. Although the stimulus is long it is not convoluted. Its chain about what happens when atmospheric carbon increases and decreases is straightforward. I went down the list, checking every answer to see if it was supported by the stimulus. They all checked out until I got to E. E referenced "atmospheric heat". No where in the stimulus is "atmospheric heat" mentioned. The stimulus is concerned with "atmospheric carbon".
