The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.1. Some places, such as the southwest of the US, now in its 24th year of drought, may have switched permanently to a drier state.2. In general, the dry parts of the world are becoming drier, partly through reduced rainfall and partly through declining river flow.3. Rising temperatures cause increased evaporation and increased transpiration by plants and add to this problem.4. Many of the world’s major growing regions are now threatened by “flash droughts”, in which hot and dry weather sucks moisture from the soil at frightening speed.
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The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.1. Some places, such as the southwest of the US, now in its 24th year of drought, may have switched permanently to a drier state.2. In general, the dry parts of the world are becoming drier, partly through reduced rainfall and partly through declining river flow.3. Rising temperatures cause increased evaporation and increased transpiration by plants and add to this problem.4. Many of the world’s major growing regions are now threatened by “flash droughts”, in which hot and dry weather sucks moisture from the soil at frightening speed.
Solution
The correct sequence for the sentences to form a coherent paragraph would be: 2, 3, 1, 4.
This sequence starts with a general statement about the world's dry parts becoming drier (2), then explains why this is happening due to rising temperatures causing increased evaporation and transpiration by plants (3). It then gives a specific example of a place that may have permanently switched to a drier state (1), and ends with a statement about the impact of these changes, specifically the threat of "flash droughts" in major growing regions (4).
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