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Texas EOC English 2: Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts Drill 3, Problem 4
Texas EOC English 2: Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts Drill 3, Problem 4
- Test Prep / Texas EOC
- Texas EOC / Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
- Texas EOC English I / Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
- Texas EOC / Texas EOC English I
- Test Prep / Texas EOC
- Texas EOC II / Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
- Texas EOC English II / Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
- Reading Informational Text / Evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text
- Reading Informational Text / Evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text
- Reading Informational Text / Analyze effectiveness of structure an author uses during an exposition or argument
- Informational / Comprehension Skills
- English II EOC Assessment / Informational Media Literacy
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du
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jour brought to you by nasa's cassini spacecraft which isn't
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nearly as lucrative as nasa's casino spacecraft All right check
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out following passage Uh use of large hurricane on saturn
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Cool All right Hi Res pictures video many many miles
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away You don't really mean thinking Double take or text
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scientists The excerpt above suggests that scientists what And here
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the potential answers All right Okay So just what is
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this spacecraft cassini good for What if scientists learned waken
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start by crossing off choice b paragraph three specifically tells
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us that the saturnian hurricane gets by on water vapour
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in the atmosphere so we can infer that the surprising
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thing to scientists is that no body of water is
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needed That would be nice if this attorney in hurricane
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is washed up a bit dirty there All right See
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says that scientists doubt whether the hurricane on saturn is
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similar to those on earth This can't be right though
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the excerpts says the whole reason scientists want to study
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the hurricane is to better understand hurricanes on earth like
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physics doesn't really change across the universe just as sheldon
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and we understand something better by studying something totally different
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Like if we wanted to better understand the platypus would
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we analyze a piece of toast No Now with a
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person like crack like a fine idea is wrong Because
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the quote says that there was only water vapour on
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saturn no actual body of water nearby So the hurricanes
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clearly formed in a different way from how they form
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on earth Oh saturn leave it to you to throw
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out some crazy space Hurricane to stump are scientists Well
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choi say is the best answer The handy little box
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says that learning how hurricanes use water vapour on saturn
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could help nasa scientists better understand hurricanes on earth which
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means they don't fully understand how these attorney in hurricanes
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work heavy side and this is why their budgets get
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cut Come on you people get with the hurricane plan