Complicating factor ·El Nino can magnify the apparent cooling effect of a volcano
El Nino causes temporary warming, which fades away. If eruption happens during warming, that might hide the actual effect of the volcano. But, if eruption happens while El Nino warming is fading away, that makes effect of eruption seem larger than it is.
Correcting for complicating factor ·Show volcanos don't cause as much cooling as previously thought
After M and P subtracted effect of El Nino, found (1) minor eruptions have no discernible effect on temperature; (2) major eruptions cause smaller drop than expected in hemisphere of the eruption, and an even smaller drop in the other hemisphere.
Climatic feedback loop ·Small temperature drop leads to causal chain of effects that could lead to major cooling in a region
Delayed melting of snow leads to more sunlight reflected, which affect jet stream...at this point I'm not focusing too much on the details. We can come back to this paragraph if we're asked about the climatic feedback loop.
Passage Style
Critique or debate
Phenomenon-hypothesis
9.
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Question Type
Meaning in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
Structure
Read around the referenced text to help understand the meaning of “minor” eruption. Notice that in the sentence immediately after the mention of minor eruptions, the author says, “major, dust-spitting explosions” cause a smaller temperature drop than expected in a hemisphere. This suggests that “minor” eruptions are those that are not “dust-spitting explosions.”
a
an eruption that ████████ ████ ████ ████ ██████ ████████ ██ ██ ████████ ███
The author never connects the use of “minor” to the amount of lava produced.
b
an eruption that ███ ████ ██ ██ ██████ ██ ██████ ███████████ ████ ██████ ████████ ██ ██ ████████ ███
Although it’s true that minor eruptions have less effect on global temperature than Krakatau or El Chichon did, this isn’t the intended meaning of “minor.” The author contrasts minor eruptions with “major, dust-spitting explosions.” The contrast is based on the amount of dust emitted, not on temperature.
The author doesn’t define minor by relating it to a decrease in temperature of less than half a degree centigrade. Minor eruptions actually have “no discernible effect on temperature.”
Difficulty
76% of people who answer get this correct
This is a difficult question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%141
153
75%165
Analysis
Meaning in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
Structure
Critique or debate
Phenomenon-hypothesis
Science
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
3%
161
b
14%
163
c
3%
165
d
76%
168
e
3%
164
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