Exercise:

The Great Barrier Reef is the world s largest living structure and is made up of more (1) POTENTIAL
than 3800 individual reefs. Some marine biologists recently did a study searching the (2) RECOVER
Great Barrier Reef for ideal areas that could ____________ produce larvae and support (3) SEARCH
the recovery of other damaged reefs. The study found 112 robust source reefs, which (4) CONSIST
had ideal properties to facilitate ____________ of others by spreading fertilised eggs to (5) SUSCEPTIBLE
replenish other areas. While investigating, ____________ had strict criteria. The reefs (6) RIGHT
had to be ____________ well connected to other reefs through the constantly shifting (7) PRODUCE
currents. They needed to be less likely to die in a coral bleaching event and be (8) CONNECT
____________ to crown-of-thorn starfish outbreaks. These reefs were more likely to still
be ____________ in the event of bleaching incidents. Furthermore, they were in the
right location to send fertilised eggs to the reefs that need them during the annual
____________ . The marine biologists used ocean circulation simulations to model the
____________ of the reef.

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