the diagrams below show the life cycle of a spec ies of large fish called the salmon. summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The flow chart indicates the reproductive cycle of a salmon from when the eggs are laid to the adult form of the fish. Their life starts in the upper part of a river, where the water flows slowly and the main marine fouling are reeds. Below these reeds, we can find some small stones under which the adult salmon lays its eggs.  After five to six months the eggs have hatched and the fry is born. Later, when the newborns start to swim faster in the lower river, they enlarge to be a smolt. Before reaching the open sea the young salmons, which went from 3-8 cm to 12-15 cm in length, stay in the

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river for approximately four years. Eventually, the smolt increases its measure by about sixty centimetres, growing up to be an adult salmon, which is now ready to swim in the open sea for up to five years.

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, some of them will lay their egg in the same way as their parents did.

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means that the cycle begins again.