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Texas EOC English 2: 1.2 Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts
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Texas EOC English 2: Understanding and Analysis of Informational Texts Drill 3, Problem 4

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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

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