PrepTest 32, Section 2, Question 20
Current maps showing the North American regions where different types of garden plants will flourish are based on weather data gathered 60 years ago from a few hundred primitive weather stations. New maps are now being compiled using computerized data from several thousand modern weather stations and input from home gardeners across North America. These maps will be far more useful.
Current maps showing the North American regions where different types of garden plants will flourish are based on weather data gathered 60 years ago from a few hundred primitive weather stations. New maps are now being compiled using computerized data from several thousand modern weather stations and input from home gardeners across North America. These maps will be far more useful.
Current maps showing the North American regions where different types of garden plants will flourish are based on weather data gathered 60 years ago from a few hundred primitive weather stations. New maps are now being compiled using computerized data from several thousand modern weather stations and input from home gardeners across North America. These maps will be far more useful.
Current maps showing the North American regions where different types of garden plants will flourish are based on weather data gathered 60 years ago from a few hundred primitive weather stations. New maps are now being compiled using computerized data from several thousand modern weather stations and input from home gardeners across North America. These maps will be far more useful.
Each of the following, if true, helps to support the claim that the new maps will be more useful EXCEPT:
Home gardeners can provide information on plant flourishing not available from weather stations.
Some of the weather stations currently in use are more than 60 years old.
Weather patterns can be described more accurately when more information is available.
Weather conditions are the most important factor in determining where plants will grow.
Weather patterns have changed in the past 60 years.
Explanations
The author argues that today's gardening maps will be far more useful than those of the past.
Why? Because the old maps used outdated, static data from primitive weather stations, whereas the new maps use computerized data from thousands of modern weather stations and individual gardeners.
Not the worst argument I've ever heard, but not fully proven.
It's a Strengthen Except question, so the correct answer will either point to the old maps being more useful or won't affect the likelihood that the new maps are better than the old ones.
Let's see.
Nah. This is a great strengthener. This tells us that the home gardener contributions improve the new maps. This points to the new ones being better than the old ones.
This will do. It doesn't affect the likelihood that the new maps are better. All this tells me is that some of today's weather stations happen to be old. That neither increases nor decreases the likelihood that today's maps are better than the old ones.
Nah, this strengthens the argument. If this is true, then the new maps will be more accurate by virtue that they include more information than the old ones.
Nope, this strengthens, too. If weather conditions are the most important factor to plant growth, then having the enormous volume of computerized data will inherently make these maps more useful than the old ones.
Wrong again. This strengthens the argument by throwing shade at the outdated weather data found in the old maps. That is, if weather patterns are changing, what good would the old data be to today's gardeners?
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