SAT Reading Drill 4.1 Determining explicit meanings

gonna start with the question and then let the skimming kind of speak for

itself or read for itself or whatever skimming does so here we go first

question of the series is according to the passage volcanic eruptions are what

let's go back here now and we're just gonna kind of skim a little bit on the

surface till things are not relevant history ball they sacrifice key for that

doesn't they're asking alone all right well I think about here the answer is a

well how do we get that who knew volcanoes were so affected by the moon [smoking volcano]

well the way they grow fur and claws and roam the countryside eating yeah no wait [werewolf]

those are werewolves all right study at the heart of this passage concluded that [text on screen]

out of 680 eruptions studied the probability of an eruption is greatest

at times of maximal tidal amplitude see we got it right there maximal tides are

referred to in the article as fortnightly tides that occur when the

moon is lined up with the Sun so you couldn't let that fortnightly word there

throw yeah it sounds like something Lincoln said in a speech right well [Lincoln]

there's a difference between a maximal tide one and a high tide which is why we [ocean tide]

can't say that volcanic eruptions are less likely to occur at low tide so get [text on screen]

rid of that one likewise we can't make any claims about regular high tide

versus a decaf low tide so get rid of sea there unlike werewolves maximal

tides occur at both full and New Moon's and the article doesn't differentiate

between the two when it comes to influencing volcanic eruptions so it is

and we're glad we skimmed this passage before you know the full moon

you