PrepTest 114, Section 3, Question 7
The myth persists that in 1492 the Western(433 more words not shown)
The " succession " mentioned(9 more words not shown)
- Aforest clearing followed(5 more words not shown)
- Btropical rain forest(4 more words not shown)
- CEuropean settlement followed(4 more words not shown)
- Dhomogeneous pine forest(4 more words not shown)
- Epine forests followed(3 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
What happened just before “This succession”? The settlements were abandoned, and the land returned to mixed hardwoods. So we're looking for that change in vegetation: pine-dominant forest gives way to a mixture of hardwoods. Keep the order straight.
Working the answers
- A
Clearing followed by burning is an earlier sequence of human actions. The reference here is to the forest change after settlements were abandoned.
- B
This reverses the change. The relevant shift is from pine forest back to mixed forest, not mixed tropical forest becoming pine forest.
- C
These are Native settlements, not European ones. More basically, succession refers to the change in forest composition, not the arrival and departure of settlers.
- DCorrect
The land “returned to mixed hardwoods” after settlement ended. Those hardwoods followed the pine-dominant forest associated with regular burning. The last sentence says that same replacement occurred elsewhere.
- E
The sequence isn't pines followed by settlement. It's one type of forest followed by another after settlements were abandoned.
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