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SAT Reading: Recognizing the Author's Argument in a Scientific Text 14 Views
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The Sonoran pronghorn has sensitive ears. Wanna know more? Watch this SAT Reading video on noise pollution.
Transcript
- 00:03
All right just a few more in our reading fast
- 00:06
here in the jungle theatre suggested a noise boyfriend might
- 00:08
cause damage to a species like the sonar on pronghorn
- 00:10
in funny ways Okay well correct answer's Gotta be be
- 00:15
it's A barrier to movement into new habit exploration The
Full Transcript
- 00:18
key argument in this paragraph is that a noise footprint
- 00:21
creates a larger space of disturbance than a physical object
- 00:25
As the authors say read along with me go ahead
- 00:28
bouncing balls the quiet spaces within a developed field maybe
- 00:31
too small and too far apart to support species that
- 00:34
are sensitive to noise and loud areas may form barriers
- 00:38
to migration and dispersal Well guess what Noise acts as
- 00:42
a barrier to the species Freedom of movement Like a
- 00:44
fence The noise footprint seems to confine animals rather than
- 00:48
drive them out like they're afraid And they just sit
- 00:50
there and cower We feel sad for them Quiet spaces
- 00:53
air constricted and they cut off paths of movement Well
- 00:56
the article doesn't say that strong horns are rough over
- 00:59
when they tried to reach quite spaces like it's nowhere
- 01:02
in the reading Nor does it say they move into
- 01:03
new regions on paragraph fails to mention anything about the
- 01:07
way pronghorn community at all in fact so yeah it's
- 01:10
be and you know new movement And the next time
- 01:13
you go into another habitat appreciate the fact you khun
- 01:16
do that Not be terrified with all the noises for 00:01:20.115 --> [endTime] you
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