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Holy Shmoop, Batman! Another question... Go ahead and hit pause so you can review this

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passage. We're not going anywhere.

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According to the information given in the passage, which of the following is true about

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our understanding of the ocean floor?

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And here are the potential answers...

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Here's the awesome thing about short passages:

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no matter how boring they are, they're quick to sift through.

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In this case, we're looking for the truest statement, so let's evaluate each of our answer

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choices in turn. First, we can eliminate (A)...

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Because lines 9 through 10 tell us that it took several hundred years to develop our

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knowledge of the ocean floor, so the first navigators couldn't have figured it all

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out on their own.

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We can cross out (B) as well, because lines 5 through 9 tell us that the first navigators

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did at least figure out that the ocean floor varies in depth.

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Choice (E) is easy to toss overboard because the first line tells us that most of the earth's

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surface is below water.

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We can nix (D), because the final line tells us everything going on with land is connected

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with what's going on underwater. So (C) is the only correct answer.

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Maybe it's a good thing the early navigators didn't figure it all out at once.

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It might've been too much to handle.

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