Scientists Track Sea Life in the Gulf of America
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The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
USGS scientists study the Gulf of America.
- A2
Scientists at the USGS study eDNA in the Gulf of America.
- B1
Scientists from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) are studying environmental DNA, or eDNA, in water samples.
- B2
Scientists from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) are analyzing environmental DNA, or eDNA, in water samples from the Gulf of America.
- C1
Below the sunlit upper 50 meters of the Gulf of America lies the mesophotic zone, a dim marine area stretching down to the deep benthic waters beyond 300 meters.
- C2
Below the sunlit upper 50 meters of the Gulf of America lies the mesophotic zone, a dim marine realm stretching down to the deep benthic waters beyond 300 meters.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- sample
- a small amount of something that is tested to learn about the whole thing
- species
- a group of plants or animals that are the same kind and can produce young together
- restoration
- the act of returning something damaged to its good, original condition
- gather
- to collect several things together, often from different places
- depth
- the distance from the top down to the bottom, or how deep water is
- steer
- to control the direction in which a vehicle or machine moves
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by USGS. Read the original for the full report.