SAT® · Reading and Writing: Information and Ideas
Science and Social Science with No Outside Knowledge
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- How it worksHow does the SAT build a self-contained argument so every term you need is defined inside the text?
- Common mistakeWhy doesn't your biology course help on a biology text, and when does it actively steer you wrong?
- Worked exampleWalk me through answering a question on an invented soil-fungi study using only the 80 words it states.
- Ties togetherHow does the no-outside-knowledge rule tie main-idea, evidence and inference questions into one single skill?
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Text: Ecologists call a species a mesopredator when it hunts smaller animals and is itself hunted by something larger. When the largest predator in a system disappears, mesopredator numbers often climb, a pattern called release. On 34 islands where a large carnivore was removed, mesopredator counts rose within 6 years on 9 of them.
Based on the text, what is mesopredator release?End of topic.