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Who doesn't want to learn more about Volcanos in the SAT Reading video? They're the gigantic pimples of the earth!
Transcript
- 00:02
all right she offers more on the volcano fascinating reading here yeah we're wide [kid napping on books]
- 00:07
awake really okay question no strongly suggest that scientist Observatory here [text on screen]
- 00:12
which assumption well the last paragraph puts this title correlation theory in
- 00:16
context right down there let's go down the last paragraph don't hurt you to
- 00:21
skim in here real quick yeah correlations more important is clue to
Full Transcript
- 00:23
how volcanoes work affect the tides it suggests Avakian eruptions with your
- 00:26
time before some threshold is exceeded and emotion starts and therefore axial
- 00:29
the lunar tides are planets of luminous order the correct answer is d will the
- 00:34
passage states that there's a 1% chance that any title maximum will affect the
- 00:40
start of an eruption right there we quoted it which means that there's a 99%
- 00:44
chance that your house won't in fact be covered in magma once every two weeks at [text on screen]
- 00:49
the end of the passage the author states that there are many other factors
- 00:51
involved in volcanic eruption the scientists involved seem to have
- 00:56
confidence in tiltmeters and strain meters but they don't discuss their
- 00:59
efficacy or whether there might be better tools so get rid of a and we know [close up of sun]
- 01:03
that the Sun exerts a pull on the earth which does affect tides and the whole
- 01:07
point of the maximal tide thing is that the moon's pole is lined up with the
- 01:12
sun's pole right so teamwork teamwork a big round heavy bodies yeah but sumo [kids playing tug-a-war]
- 01:17
wrestlers on the front NFL line
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