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Addressing Counterarguments in a Scientific Text
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It's important to know how to recognize counterarguments to a claim. This SAT Reading video covers just that - how handy.

SAT Reading: Recognizing the Author's Argument in a Scientific Text
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The Sonoran pronghorn has sensitive ears. Wanna know more? Watch this SAT Reading video on noise pollution.

SAT Reading 6.5 Passage Comparison
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SAT Reading: Passage Comparison Drill 6, Problem 5

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The Sonoran pronghorn has sensitive ears. Wanna know more? Watch this SAT Reading video on noise pollution.


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All right just a few more in our reading fast

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here in the jungle theatre suggested a noise boyfriend might

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cause damage to a species like the sonar on pronghorn

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in funny ways Okay well correct answer's Gotta be be

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it's A barrier to movement into new habit exploration The

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key argument in this paragraph is that a noise footprint

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creates a larger space of disturbance than a physical object

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As the authors say read along with me go ahead

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bouncing balls the quiet spaces within a developed field maybe

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too small and too far apart to support species that

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are sensitive to noise and loud areas may form barriers

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to migration and dispersal Well guess what Noise acts as

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a barrier to the species Freedom of movement Like a

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fence The noise footprint seems to confine animals rather than

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drive them out like they're afraid And they just sit

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there and cower We feel sad for them Quiet spaces

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air constricted and they cut off paths of movement Well

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the article doesn't say that strong horns are rough over

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when they tried to reach quite spaces like it's nowhere

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in the reading Nor does it say they move into

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new regions on paragraph fails to mention anything about the

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way pronghorn community at all in fact so yeah it's

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be and you know new movement And the next time

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you go into another habitat appreciate the fact you khun

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do that Not be terrified with all the noises for 00:01:20.115 --> [endTime] you

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