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SAT Reading: Recognizing Explicit Information in a Scientific Passage 5 Views


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Does the moon create lava tides? We can actually measure the moon's effects on volcanoes. How insanely cool is that? If we can do all this, then why can't we get that 5th dentist to finally recommend Crest?


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all right SAT Shmoopers we're moving on next

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question in the Joe and the volcano a war that's going on here [text on screen]

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alright so let's read this according to paragraph three what happens when the

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moon passes over solid ground all right so let's go back to paragraph three like

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there's one there's two and there's three all right if you realize it will

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do is on opposite sides of a global super moon HBO he's tied with our

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tiltmeters and stream years up to 103 micrograms responsible never had but one

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micro VN is the filter long when in raised by the things of a dime possibly

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about feel change more than point five micro radians in five minute Wow

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all right let's go through here well the correct answers gotta be see if the

00:45

ground shifts upward by a small but measurable amount right because the moon

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doing this thing it sounded really cool here we go

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paragraph three explains the presence of solid earth tides

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it shows how these tides work similarly to ocean tides rising when the moon's

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gravitational pull is strongest it even explains the mechanism by which

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scientists measure the shift in the ground using tiltmeters and string [text on screen]

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meters well sadly it doesn't suggest that there's any way to surf these tide [man surfing]

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we'll need to figure out some of the way to surf Funland and be kind of cool it

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sounds like back to the future or not we know that the incidence of volcanic

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eruption increases at maximal tides but the moon doesn't only pass over solid [ocean tide]

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ground once every two weeks so get rid of a we also know that the moon pulls on [moon rising]

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the earth it doesn't push it down so get rid of B the passage doesn't explain the [moon orbiting earth]

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effect of lunar gravity on the magma itself that'd be cool is there like a [molten magma]

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thing as magma I the thing can you figure out a way to surf that and bring

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in my very thick wetsuit [man in a wetsuit]

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you

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