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This SAT Reading video discusses the impact of anthropogenic noise on wildlife populations. At least for once they're having you read something interesting.
Transcript
- 00:01
All right people new siri's last one in the reading
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thing from here And unlike most passages that people seem
- 00:09
to give out this one's actually pretty interesting So let's
- 00:11
go back and read it or skim it and do
- 00:14
some stuff think about it because that will relate to
Full Transcript
- 00:17
the first question here Why should we be concerned about
- 00:19
noise impact on wildlife We're hearing provides panoramic awareness organisms
- 00:21
surrounding this learning senses finally survival In contrast vision hearing
- 00:23
and will continue to function while sleeping with evolution reinforces
- 00:25
this appointment sometime have lots of our site There are
- 00:27
no cases about hearing things let's go came a little
- 00:29
bit here while hearing on certain about intention localization values
- 00:31
remain important purpose the crucible he was like on the
- 00:33
role of sexual condition you know you don't want to
- 00:35
talk about anthropogenic noise It was that prevented me but
- 00:37
we'll get a lot of protection that we heard about
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it And unfortunately i don't know what you're talking about
- 00:41
the course and we're talking to people letting everyone hearing
- 00:43
loss in my little talking with everyone What is our
- 00:44
first finalist from under Some sort of ok bad behavior
- 00:46
Can get you your second Probably another instance of something
- 00:48
not everyone with a bird's beak even wrote They're going
- 00:50
to call that working with hides things called little relation
- 00:52
with lord that's a fine thing you're reporting department report
- 00:55
and change a fucking thing was getting one more thing
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on here frog Okay so here you go The first
- 01:00
questions The main purpose of the passages To do what
- 01:02
No Well people guess what Noise frightens animals and sometimes
- 01:08
humans right Well this isn't so shocking a conclusion thie
- 01:11
article focuses on research of specific species and changes in
- 01:15
their behavior from human caused noise explaining that rising background
- 01:20
sound levels due to anthropogenic noise raised profound concerns The
- 01:25
article draws several conclusions but they all focus on the
- 01:28
ways that noise harms species duff they don't discuss ways
- 01:32
to fix the problem so get rid of the passage
- 01:35
does describe the ways that species use hearing Yes but
- 01:38
this is a sub point to the main idea Yeah
- 01:40
we got that right away The passage does label development
- 01:43
as a cause like real estate in buildings and runways
- 01:46
for airport but the text doesn't focus on it exclusively
- 01:49
So yeah we got that too It also talks about
- 01:51
transportation and recreation centers as big noise creators Yeah go
- 01:55
find a four year old on a playground and ask
- 01:57
them about that scares the crap out of lizard Okay
- 02:01
so that's it uh it's a d explain how unnatural 00:02:04.522 --> [endTime] noise back in animal behavior
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