Which of the following statements supports the author's claim that "conservation is a collective responsibility"? A.
This decline, interestingly, is coupled with a rise in materialistic values.
B.
The steepest decline in conservation took place during the Reagan administration.
C.
These opposing values should raise a red flag about the consumer culture and its influence on youth.
D.
And when youths are more materially driven, they are also less likely to believe that natural resources will become scarce in the future.
E.
The highest levels of conservation took place in the mid-to late 1970s when President Carter was asking citizens to be responsible for conserving resources.

true. the definition explains it: a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. this is a dictionary definition that i have looked up in a dictionary.

the sentence that best describes the tone of the passage from the radio broadcast compared to the passage from the book is b. the radio broadcast has a more surprised tone.

consider the text evidence: in the passage from the book, the description is more matter-of-fact. it is simply describing the things resembling little grey snakes, but there is no urgency in the description. on the other hand, in the passage from the radio broadcast, there is definetely urgency (you can tell from the expression used, "good heavens", which clearly indicates surprise.)

your answer would be: c