"Overfishing the Oceans." Then answer the question. Overfishing is a problem that affects a whole ecosystem. A
healthy ocean has a balance of different species. One
problem with overfishing is that it takes away many of the
top predator fish and disrupts this balance. Overfishing can
also disrupt the marine ecosystem in other ways.

A) sharks may have difficulty finding food
B) a rise in squid and mackerel populations
C) the balance in the food web would be disrupted
D) all of the above are potential results of a decrease in tune populations

Me determine which are quote or paraphrase.

Which statement best explains how the setting affects the meaning of the story? a. the water and wave motif conveys the queasy feeling the narrator has when walking alone at night. b. the firefly light conveys a feeling of nostalgia for long summer evenings spent with family. c. the phrase whispering and murmurs" suggests that the main character has fits of madness. d. the comparison of the street to a graveyard suggests that something is terribly wrong with society.

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.