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ACT Aspire Reading: Describing the Overall Purpose of a Scientific Text 0 Views
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The main purpose of this passage is to:
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- 00:03
Okay Aspiring shmoop er's We got six of ten for
- 00:06
you here The main purpose of the passage is to
- 00:09
what Well let's see it's to describe the adaptations of
- 00:19
the tailed frog and boreal toad So the majority of
- 00:22
paragraphs describe in detail the individual adaptations of the two
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- 00:25
amphibian species like politics or five the harsh terrain and
- 00:29
avoid predators The author spends most of passage barracking about
- 00:32
how cool these two are Yeah somebody's got a perfect
- 00:35
ecological crush No passage doesn't compare similarities between the tailed
- 00:39
fraud and bori alto giver to be In fact pastor
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doesn't list any similarities We put it together that the
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other both amphibians with our batman ask detective skills But
- 00:48
that's as far as we got though we'll see the
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introduction briefly mentions global warming and how that has impacted
- 00:55
the amphibians in glacier park so that the egg But
- 00:57
it doesn't say anything specifically about the importance of animal
- 01:00
adam station's in a changing world Yeah so give it
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a c story doesn't talk about the world at large
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instead of just focuses on the amphibians in the park
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Thank you mr toad In your wild ride That's it
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It's
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