How to answer
Matching Information: how to approach it
- 1
Read the items first and note what kind of information each wants: an example, a cause, a date, a warning.
- 2
Items are not in passage order, so skim each paragraph once and note what it does.
- 3
A paragraph can be the answer more than once, and some paragraphs are never used.
- 4
Match the idea, not a repeated word: the paragraph usually paraphrases the item.
115 drills
Matching Information drills
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All 115 Matching Information drills
- Canopy Loss and Forest Amphibian Decline
- Climate Records Preserved in Cave Dripstones
- Cold Adaptations of the Woolly Mammoth
- Crossmodal Influences on Taste Perception
- Crowd-Sourced Earthquake Detection Networks
- Deception and Diversity in Forest Butterflies
- Deep Abyssal Ocean Currents
- Dietary Shifts in Early Canine Domestication
- Diverse Ecological Uses of Spider Silk
- Early Plant Management in Wetland Environments
- Echoes of the Past
- El Niño and Ancient Coastal Societies
- Fire and Grazing in Temperate Grasslands
- Forecasting Auroral Activity
- Fungal Networks in Coastal Sand Dunes
- Gas Retention and Structure in Wheat Bread
- Gathering Water from Oceanic Mists
- Giant Telescopes Without Tubes
- Glacial Lakes and Downstream Hazards
- Gravitational Microlensing and Exoplanet Discovery
- Ground-Nesting Bees and Farmland Soils
- Growing Crops in Polar Environments
- Harnessing Urban Wind Corridors
- Honeybee Foraging in Artificial Landscapes
- How Animal Venoms Evolved
- How Birds Learn to Build Nests
- How Black Holes Regulate Star Formation
- How Crows Manage and Protect Their Tools
- How Freshwater Eels Navigate the Oceans
- How Ocean Sediments Form Fossils
- How Rainforest Canopies Regulate Microclimates
- How River Deltas Change Course
- How Smoke Triggers Plant Germination
- How the Axolotl Rebuilds Lost Body Parts
- How the Horse Transformed Pastoral Mobility
- How Wildfires Create Clouds
- Human Impacts on Geyser Activity
- Hydrothermal Plumes and Ocean Chemistry
- Lichens as Indicators of Air Pollution
- Manufacturing Resources on Mars
- Microscopic Hazards in Earth Orbit
- Moisture Harvesting in Arid Cacti
- Mosses as Environmental Monitors
- Mutualistic Partnerships in Carnivorous Plants
- Navigation Systems of Open-Ocean Sharks
- Orbital Patterns of the Galilean Moons
- Oxygen Depletion in Ancient Oceans
- Plant Nutrition in Organic Agriculture
- Predicting Rapid Intensification in Hurricanes
- Preserving and Processing Ancient Hulled Wheats
- Preserving Vernacular Earthen Architecture
- Protecting Darkness in Agricultural Landscapes
- Refining Asteroid Metals in Orbit
- Restoring Lowland River Floodplains
- Rethinking Dam Management
- Securing the Seeds of Ancient Forests
- Sensory Shifts in Salmon Homing
- Sleep Spindles and Cognitive Resilience
- Soil Depletion and Human Health
- Submerged Hibernation in Freshwater Animals
- Subterranean Gravitational Energy Storage
- Tardigrade Ecology and Global Dispersal
- The Agronomy of Orphan Crops
- The Archaeological Journey of the Domestic Cat
- The Architecture and Symbolism of Earthen Granaries
- The Architecture of Hygroscopic Adaptation
- The Architecture of Planetary Rings
- The Architecture of Plant Galls
- The Biology of Musical Chills
- The Chemistry and Authentication of Amber
- The Coastal Architecture of Mangrove Forests
- The Cognitive Power of Learner Sketching
- The Colours and Layers of Icebergs
- The Disintegration of Comets
- The Ecological Legacy of Jellyfish Falls
- The Ecology of Pelagic Tunicates
- The Ecology of Seagrass Meadows
- The Fermentation of Cocoa Beans
- The Formation and Dispersal of Meteor Streams
- The Integration of Fish and Rice Farming
- The Making of Industrial Maize
- The Mechanics of Boundary Extension
- The Mechanics of Quick Clay Hazards
- The Natal Homing of Marine Turtles
- The North American Monsoon
- The Optics of Unusual Rainbows
- The Problem of Nocturnal Tornadoes
- The Promise of Paludiculture
- The Psychology of Artificial Urgency
- The Psychology of Present Bias
- The Rise and Fall of Gutta-Percha
- The Rise of Upcycled Food
- The Subterranean Life of Bamboo
- The Triggers of Ephemeral Desert Blooms
- The Victorian Underground Pneumatic Railway
- The Working Camel in Arid Economies
- Tracking Wildlife from Orbit
- Underwater Acoustics in Estuaries
- Unravelling the Chemistry of the Moon
- Vocal Learning in Parrots
- Vocal Traditions in Songbird Populations
- Volcanic Lightning
- Winter Thermal Regulation in Penguin Colonies
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