Blue whale has the most fat of any animal according to a study of 49 mammal species. Blue whales can weigh up to 180 tons and contain over 35% body fat. Marine mammals like whales have a thick layer of blubber, which is fatty tissue that provides benefits like insulation. Bowhead whales in northern waters need especially thick blubber, almost half a meter, to survive in the cold environment as the blubber can make up 43-50% of their body mass.

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IELTS Reading
Short Answer Question
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2. contents
What is Short Answer Question?
Difference between Short Answer Question &
Sentence Completion
Nature of Short Answer Question.
Problem with the Short Answer Question.
Tips for Short Answer Question.
Techniques for Short Answer Question.
Example

3. What is Short Answer
Question
Definition: Short-answer questions on IELTS
Reading are very similar to sentence
completion questions. Again, you should
answer questions with words taken directly
from the text. And you’re given a word limit
(for example: write no more than two
words).

4. Difference between short answer
Qustion & Sentence completion
The only difference is that in sentence
completion you obviously have to complete
sentences. And in short-answer questions
you may have either to complete sentences
or answer questions.

5. Nature of Short Answer
Question.
Questions follow the order of the text.
Question is made with paraphrasing &
synonyms
It has to be answered with words taken from
the text.
You're given a word limit.

6. Problem with the Short
Answer Question
Words limit.
Question is paraphrased & synonyms are
used.
Sense of grammar.
Answer has to be taken from the text.

7. Tips for Short Answer
Question
Make sure that your answer doesn't exceed
the word limit.
The answer is given according to the order.
If text introduces new terms, some answers
are likely to be among them.
Try to identify any answer of the given
question.

8. Techniques for Short Answer
Question
• Have a look on the question first.
• Identify the anchor words.
• Skim and scan over the text.
• Identify the answer based on the key words.
• The answer you will find according to the
order.

9. Example
Answer the questions with NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS:
1. Which animal has the most fat?
…………………………………………..
2. How is called tissue of marine mammals that is rich with
fat?
……………………………………………
3. Which marine animals need a thick layer of fat to survive
in cold waters?
…………………………………………..

10. Text: The fattest animals
As the largest animal in the world, the blue
whale also has the most fat. In a 1968 study
involving 49 different species of mammal from
across the US and Brazil, researchers deduced
that the blue whale had the highest
percentage of body fat – more than 35%. With
the whales weighing in at up to 180 tones,
that’s easily a record-breaking amount of fat
for one animal.

11. But if we look at things proportionally, you might be
surprised by some of the world’s full-fat species.
We’ll begin with blubber, the fat rich tissue
belonging to marine mammals that has myriad
benefits for streamlining, buoyancy, defence,
insulation and energy storage.
In waters further north live bowhead whales. To
survive in these frosty, remote waters they have a
layer of blubber almost half a metre thick. In his
studies, Dr Craig George found blubber mass
ranged from 43% to 50% of the body mass of
yearling whales.

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