I think the third one down. I had to sound out the words, though.
As you know, water evaporates in heat, and tropical places are usually very hot! Tropical implies "ocean" so, when an ocean evaporates it leaves a sandy ocean floor, which is a desert, but there are lake sized "puddles" of salt water left over, which is why there is a big salt water lake in the middle of Utah.
Make sure you include all of the different ones such a s period or a comma and think of why you think it’s important like, “because if we didn’t have punctuation the sentences wouldn’t make sense and be scrambled” or anything else you can think of. Also take inspiration from actual newspaper articles. Hope this helps
I believe its either Rising action or the climax.
The answer is 5/8 because I divided both sides by 9