LSAT 137 | Section 1 | Reading Comprehension: Q17

RC Question 17 Explanation

DISCUSSION: The author of Passage A claims that the Everglades are not natural because of invasive forest species.

The author of Passage B would claim that the Everglades are just changing into a different ecosystem, but that this has nothing to do with whether they are ‘natural’. Nature includes change.

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1. The author of passage B doesn’t agree that habitats can be ‘disturbed’.
2. Passage A has a pretty consistent definition of nature: ecosystems as they evolved before invasive species.
3. The line in question says ‘wild and natural’. Passage A implies that the two words mean the same thing. Passage B doesn’t say any different.
4. Unconventional means unusual. But a lot of people would agree with the definition of nature given in passage A.
5. CORRECT. The ideal of nature in passage A is an ecosystem undisturbed by invasive species. Passage B thinks that physical nature is more important. Even if an ecosystem has been changed by an invasive species, it is still physical nature.