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SAT Reading: Which Answer Choice Accurately Represents Information in the Passage?
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SAT Reading: Using Context Clues in a Scientific Passage to Define "Fortnight"
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SAT Reading: Citing Quantitative Information in a Graphic as Supporting Evidence for a Claim
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Analyzing texts and volcanos...it's the last video in this short but sweet SAT Reading volcano series.

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SAT Reading: Identifying the Relationship between Two Concepts in a Scientific Text 3 Views


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Ok more love fest with the animals in this SAT Reading video. Roar!


Transcript

00:02

okay more love fest with the animals here hand me some bark to chew on it's [writing on bark of tree in forest]

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good stuff which best makes a relationship between bird densities and [text on screen]

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noise levels I mean it's on line 44 they come take a look so a relationship know

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extent that I conducted in the Netherlands found at 60% woodland bird

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species showed reduced numbers near roads correct answer D there for birds

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the ability to make and hear calls is important but different birds have [bird bathing]

00:31

different calls and like people the passage explicitly states right there [people on the phone]

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birds with higher frequency calls were less likely to avoid roadways then birds [text on screen]

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with lower frequency calls birds capable of high frequency calls didn't need to

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avoid roadways to the same extent because they could hear each other [bird on bush]

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better over the traffic noise right so cars tend to be lower frequency sounds

00:53

worse birds or kind of sounds yeah and that penetrates things like wood a [forest]

00:58

little better at least that leaves around them around trees yeah well since

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the road noise is lower frequency while birds with similar calls would need to [heavily trafficked highway]

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avoid the area more not less so get rid of a there's also no mention of trees or

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types of road so get rid of B and C they're easy it's d and we're all just

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trying to be very quiet here as we study the yellow-bellied thrusted shmooper [woman looking through binoculars]

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