Podcast Beta
Questions and Answers
The parasitic dodder plant increases its reproductive success by flowering at the same time as the host plant it has latched onto. In 2020, Jianqiang Wu and his colleagues determined that the tiny dodder achieves this _______ with its host by absorbing and utilizing a protein the host produces when it is about to flower.
synchronization
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase? - The following text is from Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel The House of Mirth. Lily Bart and a companion are walking through a park. Lily had no real intimacy with nature, but she was keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations. The landscape outspread below her seemed an enlargement of her present mood, and she found _______ in the view.
Former astronaut Ellen Ochoa says that although she doesn’t have a definite idea of when it might happen, she _______ that humans will someday need to be able to live in other environments than those found on Earth. This conjecture informs her interest in future research missions to the moon. Diné bizaad, the Navajo language. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Following the principles of community-based participatory research, tribal nations and research institutions are equal partners in health studies conducted on reservations. A collaboration between _______ this model: tribal citizens worked alongside scientists to design the methodology and continue to assist in data collection. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Signup and view all the answers
What is true about Mother?
Signup and view all the answers
In the poem 'To You,' Whitman suggests that readers, whom he addresses directly, have not fully understood themselves, writing, _______
Signup and view all the answers
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the student’s claim about Martín Chambi's photographs?
Signup and view all the answers
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
Signup and view all the answers
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
Signup and view all the answers
Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
Signup and view all the answers
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the example?
Signup and view all the answers
Which choice best describes data from the table that support the researchers’ claim?
Signup and view all the answers
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A) critic, Stina Chyn, claims _____ to the conventions of Standard English?
Signup and view all the answers
Some historians _______ that this 'tulip mania' was the first historical instance of an asset bubble, which occurs when investors drive prices to highs not supported by actual demand.
Signup and view all the answers
Scientists believe that, unlike most other species of barnacle, turtle barnacles (Chelonibia testudinari) can dissolve the cement-like secretions they use to attach _______ to a sea turtle shell, enabling the barnacles to move short distances across the shell's surface.
Signup and view all the answers
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? In 1453, English King Henry VI became unfit to rule after falling gravely ill. As a result, Parliament appointed Richard, Third Duke of York, who had a _______?
Signup and view all the answers
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researchers’ hypothesis?
Signup and view all the answers
In ancient Greece, an Epicurean was a follower of Epicurus, a philosopher whose beliefs revolved around the pursuit of pleasure. Epicurus defined pleasure as 'the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the _____ that all life’s virtues derived from this absence.'
Signup and view all the answers
Which choice most logically completes the text? A) soul,” positing; B) soul”: positing; C) soul”; positing; D) soul.” Positing
Signup and view all the answers
Researchers studying magnetosensation have determined why some soil-dwelling roundworms in the Southern Hemisphere move in the opposite direction of Earth’s magnetic field when searching for _______ in the Northern Hemisphere.
Signup and view all the answers
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English? A) they; B) one; C) you; D) it
Signup and view all the answers
Study Notes
The SAT Practice Test
- The practice test is an effective way to prepare for the SAT, and it's recommended to take the practice test and score it at sat.org/digital-practice.
Reading and Writing
- The reading and writing section assesses various skills, including reading passages and answering multiple-choice questions based on the passages.
- Each question has a single correct answer.
Ellen Ochoa and Space Exploration
- Ellen Ochoa, a former astronaut, believes that humans will eventually need to live in environments other than those found on Earth.
- This idea influences her interest in future research missions to the moon.
Annie Dodge Wauneka and Public Health
- Annie Dodge Wauneka, a Navajo Nation legislator, worked to promote public health in the 1950s.
- Her efforts involved traveling throughout the Navajo homeland and creating a medical dictionary for the Navajo language, Diné bizaad.
Community-Based Participatory Research
- Tribal nations and research institutions collaborate as equal partners in health studies conducted on reservations.
- An example of this partnership is the collaboration between the Crow Tribe and Montana State University, where tribal citizens worked alongside scientists to design the methodology and collect data.
Binary Star Systems and Planetary Formation
- The conditions in binary star systems make planetary formation difficult to explain.
- Researchers Roman Rafikov and Kedron Silsbee have shed light on this topic by determining the complex factors that support planetary development in such systems.
Dodder Plant and Host Plants
- The parasitic dodder plant increases its reproductive success by flowering at the same time as its host plant.
- The dodder plant achieves this synchronization by absorbing and utilizing a protein produced by the host plant.
Sterlin Harjo and Representation in Television
- Sterlin Harjo, a Seminole/Muscogee director, rejects the tendency to situate Native characters in the distant past.
- His series Reservation Dogs features teenagers in contemporary clothing and dialogue with current slang.
Luis von Ahn and Digital Books
- Computer scientist Luis von Ahn worked on converting printed books into a digital format in 2007.
- He discovered that some words were distorted, but humans could easily recognize them, leading to the development of a security test to prevent automated "bots" from accessing websites.
Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
- The text is from Edith Wharton's 1905 novel The House of Mirth, where Lily Bart and a companion walk through a park.
- Lily Bart has a passion for the appropriate and is sensitive to her surroundings, which reflect her own sensations.### reCAPTCHA
- The first version of reCAPTCHA asked users to type one known word and one unrecognized word, which helped to digitize books.
- Correct answers proved the user was human and added data to the book-digitizing project.
Sunshine and Work Behavior
- A study found that exposure to sunshine during the workday can lead to overly optimistic behavior.
- The study analyzed 29,000 annual earnings forecasts from 1994 to 2010.
- The study found that managers who were exposed to more sunshine before submitting earnings forecasts tended to be overly optimistic.
Poem Analysis
- The poem "Poet of Our Race" by Maggie Pogue Johnson addresses Paul Laurence Dunbar, a Black author.
- The poem praises Dunbar's work, saying he has told stories of joy and mirth, and has read the hearts and souls of men.
Mother's Role
- Mother in the novel The Railway Children was always available to play with and read to her children.
- She also helped them with their homework and wrote stories for them while they were at school.
Notable Figures
-
Martín Chambi was a renowned photographer born in 1891 to a Quechua-speaking family in the Andes Mountains of Peru.
-
Walt Whitman wrote the poem "To You" in 1856, which suggests that readers have not fully understood themselves.### Chambi's Photographs
-
Chambi's photographs have considerable ethnographic value, capturing diverse elements of Peruvian society and representing his subjects with dignity and authenticity.
-
His work includes commissioned portraits of wealthy Peruvians, as well as hundreds of images documenting the peoples, sites, and customs of Indigenous communities of the Andes.
Indigenous Actors and Filmmakers
- Researchers have turned their attention to the early days of cinema, particularly the 1910s and 1920s, when people like James Young Deer, Dark Cloud, Edwin Carewe, and Lillian St.Cyr (Red Wing) were involved in numerous films.
- The credited film output of these individuals includes James Young Deer (33 films as actor, 35 as director, 10 as writer), Dark Cloud (35 films as actor, 1 as writer), Edwin Carewe (47 films as actor, 58 as director, 20 as producer, 4 as writer), and Lillian St.Cyr (66 films as actor).
Juvenile Plants
- Researchers Alicia Montesinos-Navarro, Isabelle Storer, and Rocío Perez-Barrales examined plots within a diverse plant community in southeast Spain and found that if individual plants were randomly distributed, only about 15% would be with other plants in patches of vegetation.
- The researchers counted the number of juvenile plants of five species growing in patches of vegetation and the number growing alone on bare ground, and compared those numbers to what would be expected if the plants were randomly distributed.
- The results show that for each species, the percentage of juvenile plants growing in patches of vegetation was substantially higher than what would be expected if plants were randomly distributed.
Barbacenia Plants
- Barbacenia tomentosa and Barbacenia macrantha, two plants in the Velloziaceae family, can establish themselves on soilless, nutrient-poor patches of quartzite rock in the mountains of Brazil.
- The roots of these plants have clusters of fine hairs near the root tip, which secrete both malic and citric acids.
Sauropod Dinosaurs
- Herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs could grow more than 100 feet long and weigh up to 80 tons.
- Some researchers have attributed the evolution of sauropods to such massive sizes to increased plant production resulting from high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide during the Mesozoic era.
- However, there is no evidence of significant spikes in carbon dioxide levels coinciding with relevant periods in sauropod evolution.
Studying That Suits You
Use AI to generate personalized quizzes and flashcards to suit your learning preferences.
Description
Get ready for the SAT with this practice test. Score it at sat.org/digital-practice after taking the test.
