■ Direction You have 20 minutes to plan and write your response. Your response will be judged on the basis of The quality of writing and on how well your response presents the points in the lecture and the relationship to the reading passage. Typically, an effective response will be 150 to 225 words. ■ Question Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on the points made in the reading
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▶ Your Answer :
In the reading passage, there is ample support for the author’s claim that the edmontosaur could have survived in Alaska’s North Slope by migrating south to move to hospitable regions. However, the professor in the lecture gives several reasons as a rebuttal to the author’ point. First, the professor contends that the edmontosaur did not have to go to the south to find foods. A hundred millions years ago, the climate would have been warmer than today. There were was sunshine twenty-four hours a day during the peak of the summer. This means that a large number of plants would have grown in that region in summer. In addition, the edmontosaur could have survived by eating dead plants which are nutritious even around the winter. This casts doubt on the reading passage’s claim that the edmontosaur’s eating habit accounts for migration because plants could not have grown in the Alaska’s North Slope due to harsh temperature. Next, the professor insists that the fact that the edmontosaurs lived in a herd cannot contribute to the migration theory. it is possible that they might have formed a group to protect themselves from predators and continued to live in the same place. For example, a specific type of elk, which thrives on the western United States, lives in the herd without migration. This counters the reading passage’s assertion that the discovery of a lot of the edmontosaur’s skeletons at the same region proves that they could have lived in a herd, this means they have migrated with forming a group.
Finally, the professor argues that the migration theory relating to the physical capacity of the edmontosaur cannot explain the juvenile dinosaur’s movement. Since they do not have an ability to move such a long distance with high speeds, which makes the whole herd slow. As a result, they could not have been reached the destination on time. This refutes the reading passage’s suggestion that the edmontosaur’s physical capacity of migrating sixteen-thousands kilometers with the speeds up to forty-five kilometers per hour could be responsible for the migration theory of this dinosaur. |
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