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Tidal Lunacy continues to intrigue, so we must analyze it some more in this SAT Reading video.


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00:02

my wrench bumpers continuing on the fascinating story of volcanoes moons and

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zit popping all right here we go next question the reference step in lines but [text on screen]

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he's having three was key to source primarily to what okay so we're going

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back line 57 through a 62 zooming you that's too much zoom back out there all

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right here we go nearly twice as many eruptions have occurred and you're a

00:23

fortnightly title maximum because I've noted that the founding episodes each

00:27

occurred really close to fortnightly title miss one and if per side Russian

00:29

positives in 1990 but a lot of hurt or my clothes for Denis was right so that

00:33

kind of makes sense and we're just kind of zipping through all this stuff coming [hand holding book down]

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back here to the answers and while the correct answers gotta be beef well the

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passage introduces research into 680 volcanic eruptions since 1900 this study [text on screen]

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is the basis for the main theory presented here later the author mentions

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that the behavior of pool matches the findings and supports the theory

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well the passage doesn't mention exact numbers when talking about other

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volcanoes but it certainly doesn't say that the volcano is any different than

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well any other volcano like poo oo is just yet another volcano so get rid of a [volcano]

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it says just the opposite in fact as for oceanic tides in solid earth tides well [text on screen]

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they're indeed similar but the distinction isn't mentioned in this

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paragraph so get with a seat there's no mention of fool all erupting at anything [ocean tide]

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other than a normal rate so get rid of D there which you know must come as a [volcanic eruption]

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relief to any Hawaiians who live nearby thank goodness Hawaii hasn't had any

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eruptions it seems it oh wait thank goodness all this research

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prevented having any untimely eruptions that we couldn't predict in Hawaii and [volcanic eruption]

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everything's been nice and boring ever since

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you

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