LSAT 114 | Section 3 | Reading Comprehension: Q4

RC Question 4 Explanation

DISCUSSION: This looks tricky, but the elevations give us a clue. They’re only mentioned in lines 44-50. Nicaraguan forests were burnt, at low elevations. The result was forests full of nothing but pines.

Lines 37-38 tell us that burnt forests are homogeneous. And the Nicaraguan forests are homogenous pine, so B is the answer.

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1. This isn’t right because the high altitude pine forests were natural. See lines 49-50.
2. CORRECT. See the explanation above. 
3. Heterogenous forests are natural forests that haven’t been burned. See lines 37-38.
4. Same as C.
5. Lines 18-20 mention charcoal, but we’re not told about elevations.