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SAT Reading: Using Context to Interpret the Scientific Phrase "Anthropogenic Noise" 2 Views
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Next up in SAT Reading is the topic of anthropogenic noise and its impact on wildlife.
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- 00:02
all right next up in the SAT fun land of Yosemite here that we're looking at yeah [view of Yosemite National Park]
- 00:10
which Joy's best defines the term anthropogenic noise as the passage [text on screen]
- 00:12
describes it the article mentions anthropogenic noise repeatedly but fails
- 00:18
to define it explicitly like they don't say what it equals the closest it comes
- 00:23
runs renod to refers to disturbances from human stimuli and then refers to
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- 00:29
the same idea as anthropogenic noise in the following sentence so they're kind
- 00:34
of making a parallel there the first line in the passage also tells the [writing on blackboard]
- 00:37
reader to be concerned about its effects they're not awesome it's tempting to see
- 00:41
the word anthropogenic and think anthropomorphic but it's the other way
- 00:45
around so yeah sorry gonna give her an egg it also refers to human created [traffic]
- 00:49
noise only not humans and wildlife together and from the first line of the [squirrel eats food out of hand]
- 00:53
text well we know that it doesn't have positive effects and that's it all right
- 00:57
we're done
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