Summer Drought May Bring Maryland's Black Bears Closer to People
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The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
A science center did a study in Maryland.
- A2
A science center and a state agency in Maryland did a study.
- B1
The National Climate Adaptation Science Center and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources have done a new study.
- B2
The National Climate Adaptation Science Center and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources published a study in the journal Human-Wildlife Interactions.
- C1
Encounters between people and bears are rising across the United States, and Maryland has a high national rate of reported incidents per 10,000 residents.
- C2
Encounters between people and bears have been climbing across the United States, and few states illustrate the trend as sharply as Maryland.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- drought
- a long period of time when there is little or no rain
- widen
- to become larger or to make something cover a bigger area
- interaction
- a situation where two or more people or things meet and affect each other
- alongside
- together with or at the same time as something else
- crop
- a plant such as wheat, fruit, or vegetables grown by farmers in large amounts
- spread
- to reach or affect a larger area or more people
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by USGS. Read the original for the full report.