Digital SAT Rhetorical Synthesis: Deep-Sea Coral Discovery

A Digital SAT-style Rhetorical Synthesis exercise based on student notes regarding a groundbreaking marine biology discovery near the Mariana Trench.

📖 Đọc đoạn văn sau

While researching a topic, a student took the following notes:

• Dr. Maria Rodriguez is a renowned marine biologist specializing in deep-sea organisms.

• Deep-sea corals live in cold ocean waters devoid of sunlight, unlike their shallow-water counterparts.

• In 2022, Rodriguez led an oceanic expedition near the Mariana Trench region in the Pacific Ocean.

• Her team discovered a vibrant deep-sea coral reef thriving at an abyssal depth of 3,000 meters.

• This reef relies on chemosynthetic bacteria for nutrients rather than traditional photosynthesis.

• The discovery challenges the long-held scientific assumption that complex reef ecosystems cannot survive in extreme deep-sea environments.

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devoid adj

/dɪˈvɔɪd/

hoàn toàn không có, trống rỗng

abyssal adj

/əˈbɪs.əl/

thuộc vực thẳm biển sâu

assumption n

/əˈsʌmp.ʃən/

giả định, quan niệm mặc định

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