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SAT Reading: What is the Main Purpose of this Scientific Passage? 0 Views


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Description:

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

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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

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to give out this one's actually pretty interesting So let's

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go back and read it or skim it and do

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some stuff think about it because that will relate to

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the first question here Why should we be concerned about

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noise impact on wildlife We're hearing provides panoramic awareness organisms

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surrounding this learning senses finally survival In contrast vision hearing

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and will continue to function while sleeping with evolution reinforces

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this appointment sometime have lots of our site There are

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no cases about hearing things let's go came a little

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bit here while hearing on certain about intention localization values

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remain important purpose the crucible he was like on the

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role of sexual condition you know you don't want to

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talk about anthropogenic noise It was that prevented me but

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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

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the course and we're talking to people letting everyone hearing

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loss in my little talking with everyone What is our

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first finalist from under Some sort of ok bad behavior

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Can get you your second Probably another instance of something

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not everyone with a bird's beak even wrote They're going

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to call that working with hides things called little relation

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with lord that's a fine thing you're reporting department report

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and change a fucking thing was getting one more thing

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on here frog Okay so here you go The first

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questions The main purpose of the passages To do what

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No Well people guess what Noise frightens animals and sometimes

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humans right Well this isn't so shocking a conclusion thie

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article focuses on research of specific species and changes in

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their behavior from human caused noise explaining that rising background

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sound levels due to anthropogenic noise raised profound concerns The

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article draws several conclusions but they all focus on the

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ways that noise harms species duff they don't discuss ways

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to fix the problem so get rid of the passage

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does describe the ways that species use hearing Yes but

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this is a sub point to the main idea Yeah

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we got that right away The passage does label development

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as a cause like real estate in buildings and runways

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for airport but the text doesn't focus on it exclusively

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So yeah we got that too It also talks about

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transportation and recreation centers as big noise creators Yeah go

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find a four year old on a playground and ask

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them about that scares the crap out of lizard Okay

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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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