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all right Shmoopers we got another passage that we're gonna read from this

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one's on title lunacy yeah Hawaiian Observatory volcanoes and surfing and [text on screen]

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all that stuff yeah someone passed the pineapple

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all right well normally we would skim but this is kind of a science II

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document so since the questions can be ludicrously specific we're actually

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gonna start with the question and then let the skimming kind of speak for

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itself or read for itself or whatever skimming does so here we go first

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question of the series is according to the passage volcanic eruptions are what

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let's go back here now and we're just gonna kind of skim a little bit on the

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surface till things are not relevant history ball they sacrifice key for that

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doesn't they're asking alone all right well I think about here the answer is a

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well how do we get that who knew volcanoes were so affected by the moon [smoking volcano]

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well the way they grow fur and claws and roam the countryside eating yeah no wait [werewolf]

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those are werewolves all right study at the heart of this passage concluded that [text on screen]

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out of 680 eruptions studied the probability of an eruption is greatest

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at times of maximal tidal amplitude see we got it right there maximal tides are

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referred to in the article as fortnightly tides that occur when the

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moon is lined up with the Sun so you couldn't let that fortnightly word there

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throw yeah it sounds like something Lincoln said in a speech right well [Lincoln]

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there's a difference between a maximal tide one and a high tide which is why we [ocean tide]

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can't say that volcanic eruptions are less likely to occur at low tide so get [text on screen]

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rid of that one likewise we can't make any claims about regular high tide

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versus a decaf low tide so get rid of sea there unlike werewolves maximal

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tides occur at both full and New Moon's and the article doesn't differentiate

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between the two when it comes to influencing volcanic eruptions so it is

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and we're glad we skimmed this passage before you know the full moon

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you

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