From 13 Acres to Nearly 750: The Return of Morro Bay's Eelgrass
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Nature groups helped eelgrass in California's Morro Bay.
- A2
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service helped bring eelgrass back to Morro Bay.
- B1
Between 2007 and 2017, damaged habitat and poor water quality hurt the eelgrass meadows of California's Morro Bay.
- B2
Between 2007 and 2017, degraded habitat and poor water quality reduced the eelgrass meadows of California's Morro Bay from 344 acres to 13 acres.
- C1
Between 2007 and 2017, degraded habitat and poor water quality reduced the underwater meadows of California's Morro Bay from 344 acres to just 13 acres.
- C2
Ten years is all it took for the underwater meadows of California's Morro Bay to all but vanish.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- habitat
- the natural place where a plant or animal lives
- meadow
- a large open area covered with grass or wild plants
- shallow
- not deep; having only a short distance from the top to the bottom
- conservation
- the protection of nature, plants, and animals from damage
- depth
- the distance from the top or surface to the bottom of something
- honor
- to show great respect for someone, often with a special action
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by US Fish and Wildlife Service. Read the original for the full report.