IELTS Academic Reading ‘Ocean Acidification’ Answers
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Ocean Acidification
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Question Number | Answers | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
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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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