Question

2. PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A? A. "Even the crushing pressure of deep seas doesn't bother them. Nor does the vacuum of outer space or exposure to extreme radiation.!" (Paragraph 6) O B. "To exterminate tardigrades, something would have to boil the oceans away." (Paragraph 8) C. "Over a billion years, there's only about 1 chance in 3 billion of a gamma-ray burst killing off tardigrades, the researchers calculated." (Paragraph 12) D. "This is exciting to researchers who hope that if there's life elsewhere in the universe, it lasts long enough for us to find it." (Paragraph 16)​

Answer 1

The detail from the text that best supports the answer to Part A is "Even the crushing pressure of deep seas doesn't bother them. Nor does the vacuum of outer space or exposure to extreme radiation.!" (Paragraph 6). This supports the answer that tardigrades are extremely resilient, and can survive in harsh environments.