Miriam Goldstein, a marine biologist with Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, has conducted many research trips to the garbage patch 1,000 miles off the California coast. She even went swimming in it. The garbage patch contains millions of small and microscopic pieces of plastic about the size of confetti. Most pieces are not visible to the naked eye. The plastic is spread over approximately 1,930 square miles in the North Pacific Gyre. What’s alarming is not the size of the plastic but the sheer volume of it. And the amount of plastic has increased over the past 40 years. In addition, there are four more major gyres around the world that also attract plastic.
Which list best describes how the author structures the information in paragraph 3?
introduces an expert, connects the expert to the topic, presents relevant data, expands the point to include a broader problem
introduces an expert, introduces the effect of a problem, explains the expert’s conclusion, presents relevant data
introduces an expert, presents relevant data, critiques the expert’s research methods, includes a history of a problem
introduces an expert, presents a cause, presents relevant data, includes a history of a problem
