A type of sheep in Scotland, Soay sheep, used to be quite large. Scotland had a very cold climate, and the sheep that were small in stature did not survive the brutal winter months. In recent years, the climate in Scotland has been warming and so the winters are not quite so brutally cold. Interestingly, there are now many small Soay sheep. This increase in small Soay sheep is due to:.

Poling our way along the inky green waterway, we glided upstream through quiet still-water bends in the river, where mats of fragrant white flowers had gathered, closing behind the stern of our 24-inch-wide dugout and concealing any sign of our passage. —eric hansen, stranger in the forest: on foot across borneo, 1998 which of these items in the passage is an example of borneo’s flora? a. “the inky green waterway” c. “mats of fragrant white flowers” b. “still-water bends in the river” d. “the stern of our 24-inch-wide dugout”