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How are Volcanos tied to the moon? Tidal Lunacy is more about Hawaii and surfing than were wolves but don't take our word for it...find out more by...
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Analyzing texts and volcanos...it's the last video in this short but sweet SAT Reading volcano series.
SAT Reading: Recognize the Rhetorical Effect of Using a Specific Illustration 3 Views
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Tidal Lunacy continues to intrigue, so we must analyze it some more in this SAT Reading video.
Transcript
- 00:02
my wrench bumpers continuing on the fascinating story of volcanoes moons and
- 00:08
zit popping all right here we go next question the reference step in lines but [text on screen]
- 00:12
he's having three was key to source primarily to what okay so we're going
- 00:16
back line 57 through a 62 zooming you that's too much zoom back out there all
- 00:21
right here we go nearly twice as many eruptions have occurred and you're a
Full Transcript
- 00:23
fortnightly title maximum because I've noted that the founding episodes each
- 00:27
occurred really close to fortnightly title miss one and if per side Russian
- 00:29
positives in 1990 but a lot of hurt or my clothes for Denis was right so that
- 00:33
kind of makes sense and we're just kind of zipping through all this stuff coming [hand holding book down]
- 00:36
back here to the answers and while the correct answers gotta be beef well the
- 00:40
passage introduces research into 680 volcanic eruptions since 1900 this study [text on screen]
- 00:46
is the basis for the main theory presented here later the author mentions
- 00:51
that the behavior of pool matches the findings and supports the theory
- 00:56
well the passage doesn't mention exact numbers when talking about other
- 01:00
volcanoes but it certainly doesn't say that the volcano is any different than
- 01:04
well any other volcano like poo oo is just yet another volcano so get rid of a [volcano]
- 01:09
it says just the opposite in fact as for oceanic tides in solid earth tides well [text on screen]
- 01:14
they're indeed similar but the distinction isn't mentioned in this
- 01:17
paragraph so get with a seat there's no mention of fool all erupting at anything [ocean tide]
- 01:21
other than a normal rate so get rid of D there which you know must come as a [volcanic eruption]
- 01:26
relief to any Hawaiians who live nearby thank goodness Hawaii hasn't had any
- 01:30
eruptions it seems it oh wait thank goodness all this research
- 01:34
prevented having any untimely eruptions that we couldn't predict in Hawaii and [volcanic eruption]
- 01:38
everything's been nice and boring ever since
- 01:43
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