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SAT Reading: Inferring the Reason Why Magma Remains Dormant in Volcanoes 1 Views


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Liquid hot magma! Learn more about it in this volcano-themed SAT Reading video.


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00:02

all right Shmooper and Shmooperinos nerdling out on the SAT reading here

00:07

alright let's keep going this is number five of the series of eleven passages on [text on screen]

00:11

volcanoes and next question here we go the passage implies that magma in

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volcano to the white D can be dormant for hundreds of years well yeah that's [volcano]

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the right answer D it can be dormant for hundreds of years maybe thousands well [Santorini Greece]

00:25

as we learned from microwaving a frozen chicken pot pie for way too long [pie in microwave]

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well sometimes a little crust is all that stands between you and a world of

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hurt according to paragraph 5 of the passage right there read it it won't [person puts burnt finger in water]

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hurt you eruptions occur only when magma can overcome the resistance of crust we [text on screen]

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can independently verify that this also holds true for boiling gravy all right [burnt pie crust]

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well the fortnightly tides caused by the Sun and Moon aligning correlates with

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volcanic eruptions but there are many instances of eruptions at other times a [text on screen]

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so get rid of a in fact there's only about a 1% chance of an eruption during [volcanic eruption]

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a maximal tide and the passage suggests that 1/3 of eruptions occur at other

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times does magma have a titel response well it's improbable but the scientists [text on screen]

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of the HBO well they don't mention it in this

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passage so get rid of 8 and nor do they mention how long magma can remain [smoking volcano]

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dormant so get rid of C the answer is D hundreds of years hopefully we'll be

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done with this section [skeleton reading book]

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