The passage suggests that, if the criteria discussed in the highlighted text were the only criteria for establishing a reservation's water rights, which of the following would be true?

According to the passage, which of the following was true of the treaty establishing the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation?

The primary purpose of the passage is to

Which of the following best describes the relationship of the statement about large plants (in the highlighted text) to the passage as a whole?

According to the passage, which of the following statements about sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide outputs is true?

It can be inferred from the passage that a large plant might have to spend more than a similar but smaller plant on environmental compliance because the larger plant is

It can be inferred from the passage that while inside its polyhedrin protein crystals, the nuclear polyhedrosis virus

According to the passage, nuclear polyhedrosis viruses can remain virulent in the environment only when

According to the passage, before the discovery of new techniques for detecting viral DNA, population ecologists believed that viral diseases

Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the author's conclusion in the highlighted text?