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SAT Reading: Using Context to Interpret the Scientific Phrase "Anthropogenic Noise" 2 Views


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Next up in SAT Reading is the topic of anthropogenic noise and its impact on wildlife.


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00:02

all right next up in the SAT fun land of Yosemite here that we're looking at yeah [view of Yosemite National Park]

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which Joy's best defines the term anthropogenic noise as the passage [text on screen]

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describes it the article mentions anthropogenic noise repeatedly but fails

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to define it explicitly like they don't say what it equals the closest it comes

00:23

runs renod to refers to disturbances from human stimuli and then refers to

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the same idea as anthropogenic noise in the following sentence so they're kind

00:34

of making a parallel there the first line in the passage also tells the [writing on blackboard]

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reader to be concerned about its effects they're not awesome it's tempting to see

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the word anthropogenic and think anthropomorphic but it's the other way

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around so yeah sorry gonna give her an egg it also refers to human created [traffic]

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noise only not humans and wildlife together and from the first line of the [squirrel eats food out of hand]

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text well we know that it doesn't have positive effects and that's it all right

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we're done

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