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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by sea ice Fortunately you don't need

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to bother learning what that is because well it probably

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won't be a thing in twenty years way We're just

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getting chill Check out this passage and felling after if

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only marivan in the new polar bear study scientists study

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confirmed the hybridization entry of government you nevada in norway

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and their chart hands death Okay it can reasonably be

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inferred from the passage in graphic that polar bear population

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increased during which of the following periods and hear the

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potential answers all right about a bunch of dates right

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there Approximate dates Ah yes this would be referring to

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the great polar bear migration from europe When the famed

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polar bear explorer ferdinand mammalian happened upon the north pole

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and claimed it in the name of oh they didn't

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migrate there from anywhere else Then how is there any

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increase in pop You all right Well we're with you

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Okay This is actually a tricky one We're asked refer

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to both the passage and the graphic to determine what

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time period featured the greatest spike in polar bear population

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Well why can't we just look at the graphic Because

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this graph isn't measuring polar bear population it's measuring sea

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ice cover Uh sneaky So what we'll need to do

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then is look at the passage first and see if

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we can find some relationship between sea ice cover and

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polar bear population Hey there hold the elevator Check out

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the tail end of paragraph two Scientists also found that

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polar bear populations expanded and brown bear populations contracted in

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periods with mohr ice Well that's what We wanted to

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know more ice equals more polar bears Okay now we

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can take a look at the graphics well option They

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would have us believe that population soared from eighty three

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to eighty six Yet if we take a look at

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the graph and find those points well now looks like

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the sea ice cover goes down over that period of

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time Meaning so does the number of polar bears option

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b eighty eight to ninety Same deal an option d

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o c so seven Yikes Hope these guys are good

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swimmers Option c the period of time from ninety four

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ninety five is the only one where the line seems

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To be trending upward on the graphic hitting its high

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point in ninety five with more sea ice cover we

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can assume there were also more polar bears per the

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passage so we can confidently select option c is our

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final answer And hey there mr polar bear Sorry about

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teasing you early about your melting homeland We realized Now 00:02:25.95 --> [endTime] that joke was pretty yet cold Oh

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