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This SAT Reading video talks about bird densities and noise levels. We promise it's not a biology lesson.


Transcript

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all right just four more questions then we're done with this beast which gives

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the strongest evidence for the answer to that previous question to do that [text on screen]

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previous thing here so we're gonna scroll back previous question which

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choice best take the relationship between bird densities and noise levels

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so we're trying to find a support for the effects of anthropogenic noise so [text on screen]

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we're cruising down here and we're gonna just go look for lines 44 through 46 and

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we find and it's it's out you conduct in the nether one kinda 80% of little bird

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species child reduce numbers near relatives about a next thing is not the

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study though suggestive did not isolate noise from other possible complicating [text on screen]

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factors but renovation corridors or delusions in collusion okay that's

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supportive you know really nice to go and write howling studio and what are

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these effects excited over a mile in the forest wanted the noise the lake with

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popular leader were confirmed these effect and contributed a significant

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finding birds with high-frequency call it looks like look remember that lower

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frequency okay that's right support it's gotta be d the

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connection between low-frequency traffic noise and bird calls is drawn explicitly [heavily trafficked highway]

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in the first sentence of paragraph six right there it explains that birds with [text on screen]

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low-frequency calls had their calls masked or interfered with well the first

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example explains bird reductions but it doesn't say why they occur so get rid of [writing on blackboard]

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a the second shows that factors other than noise are in play but it fails to

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connect bird density with noise so get rid of E and the third example explains

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that noise and bird calls are linked but well it fails to explain a cause so get

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rid of C so yeah it's D later [bird flies away]

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