The Question(s) Below Refer to the Following Paragraph

question 46

Multiple Choice

The question(s) below refer to the following paragraph.
-Which of the following reasons would explain why the sediment core lacks fossils of dragonflies with 3-foot wingspans?
1) This particular sediment core includes the correct stratum, but the part of the stratum captured by the core lacks such fossils.
2) The sea was not present at this site during the time that 3-foot dragonflies existed.
3) Dragonflies have no hard parts, such as exoskeletons, to fossilize.
4) The sediments containing these fossils at this site may have been eroded away during a time when the sea had receded from this site.
5) Dragonflies are terrestrial; therefore, fossils of terrestrial organisms should not be expected in the sediments of seas.

• A) 1 only
• B) 3 only
• C) 5 only
• D) 2 or 4
• E) 1, 2, or 4

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