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ACT Science: Research Summary Passage Drill 3, Problem 2. Under normal conditions in nature, what is the primary method these ants use to guide themselves back to the nest?
Transcript
- 00:03
The ants go shmooping two by two hurrah...
- 00:07
Hit pause and take another gander at this long passage...
- 00:10
it's way funnier the ninth time you read it...
- 00:26
Under normal conditions in Nature, what is the primary method these ants use to guide
- 00:30
themselves back to the nest?
Full Transcript
- 00:32
And here are the potential answers...
- 00:37
What's this question asking?
- 00:39
Well, it specifies that we want to look at ants under normal conditions in nature...
- 00:44
...which means that we don't even have to worry about the experiment!
- 00:48
We don't have to read that long, boring passage again!
- 00:52
If it's too late...sorry.
- 00:56
But the ACT doesn't spend all of its time trying to figure out mean ways to trick us.
- 01:00
Actually, for the science questions, all of the answers will be right there on the page.
- 01:04
We just have to know how to find 'em.
- 01:06
So what do we have to look for?
- 01:08
Something about normal conditions, blah blah blah, nature, yada yada yada...
- 01:12
...how ants get back to a nest...
- 01:14
There we go. First paragraph, last sentence:
- 01:17
...ant that is normally dependent on chemical signals for returning to the nest from a food source.
- 01:23
Well that was convenient. We just got handed the answer.
- 01:25
According to the passage, ants NORMALLY depend on chemical signals to return to the nest.
- 01:31
And would you look at that...it's exactly what option A says.
- 01:34
Let's choose that sucker and move on with our lives.
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