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PSAT 1.4 Reading Narrative Walkthrough. Which of the following lines from the passage most clearly support the researchers' claim that heat affects drought conditions?

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop dues

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You're brought to you by droughts What happens when someone

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takes that rain rain go away thing way too far

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All right check the passage on droughts record precipitation usgs

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a period of october and soil moisture right Hey usgs

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and programs of average members keep rising in citations Which

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of the following lines from the passage most clearly support

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the researchers claim that heat affects drought conditions and hear

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the potential answers All right got a bunch of lines

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They're all right If you we thought we were going

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to be asked to correctly pronounce the name shroud hunt

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Ananda non shukla all right Okay so we're looking for

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the lines that best support the claim that heat is

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at least partly responsible for the precipitation complication already No

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problem We'll just take these lines one by one and

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see what they have to say for themselves Well option

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a is going with lines one two three with state

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Although record low precipitation has been the main driver of

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one of the worst droughts in california history abnormally high

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temperatures have also played an important role in amplifying it's

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Adverse effects according to a recent study by the u

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s geological survey and university partners Sweet heat Yeah That's

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in there played an important role Well that's Good Perfect

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We're done right Oh if only life were all rainbows

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and unicorns and gumdrops you know we'd never make it

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that easy These lines can't be supporting the claim because

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they are the claim What we're looking for is something

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that backs this claim up i'ii something that provides some

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evidence that what lines one two three or saying is

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actually accurate So moving on option seat line seven to

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eleven which read to gauge the effect of high temperatures

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on drought Lead author shroud hana shukla herd is again

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university of california santa barbara ucsb devised two sets of

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modeling experiments that compared climate data from water year two

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thousand fourteen october two thousand thirteen to september two thousand

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fourteen to similar intervals during nineteen sixteen to two thousand

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twelve Wow some sentences air definitely designed to be read

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silently rather than a loud okay so that was a

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mouthful but what's it saying well we're told that this

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chocolate character performed a couple of experiments to test climate

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data which should put us on the right track only

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were just given the basics about this setup here not

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any of the actual results which would have been helpful

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Thank you very much So option c gets a b

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plus for effort but we're still going to make it

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stay after class and clean the chalkboard erasers How about

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option dateline's twenty two twenty two If average temperatures keep

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rising we will be looking at more serious droughts even

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if the historical variability preciptation stays the same chocola said

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importance of temperature and drought prediction is likely to become

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on ly mohr significant in the future We're not feeling

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this one either chuckles stating a conclusion he drew after

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conducting his experiments but we're still on the lookout for

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something actual supporting evidence that those experiments may have brought

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to light well option b hits it right on the

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nose line's four through six experiments with the hydrologic model

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for the period october two thousand thirteen to september two

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thousand fourteen showed that if the air temperatures have been

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cooler similar to the nineteen sixteen to two thousand twelve

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average there would have been an eighty six percent chance

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that the winter snowpack would've been greater the spring summer

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runoff higher and the spring summer soil moisture deficits smaller

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There we go now that's some evidence it could be

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the basis for an entire episode of c s i

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new york Okay well maybe c s i palm springs

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