summarize the points made in the lecture about extinction of sea cow fishes, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on the hypothesis made in the reading about their possible extinction reason.
The reading discusses the main possible theories concerning the Steller cow fish’s extinction. It represents three extinction ideas that seem probable in its view. However, the professor in the lecture totally disagrees with these hypotheses and gives three reasons of support to refute each of the proposed pathways respectively.
First, the article believes that the extinction could have been caused by native Siberians overhunting attitude which lead to a serious decline in cow fishes population subsequently. But, the professor opposes this belief and thinks that this could not be possible since these animals were very gigantic and 9 meter long. So, the native folks can not hunt a lot of them for feeding purposes.
Second, the passage relates the extinction of cow fishes to the disturbances made in their habitat and ecosystem which initiated a radical reduction in their population around the island they lived. In contrast, he insists that this notion is problematic fundamentally, since it did not consider that if these animals might extinct from this action, other spices like whales and Kelps which cow fishes feed on should have been eliminated too. In contrary, their population remained intact when they became extinct. Thus, this reason logically can not be true about their disappearance.
Third, the reading suggests that may be European fur traders caused this extinction. On the other hand, professor indicates that these traders arrived to the island when these animals population already dramatically were decreased. So, generally there must be another explanation for their extinction, because sea cow fish animals were extinct long before their arrival to the island.
- Travelling is more important than reading books in order to understand the people and the world do you Agree or disagree with the statement Use specific reasons to support your answer 88
- Some people believe that growing up in a large family with several sisters and brothers offers more advantages than disadvantages Other people think that being the only child is more advantageous which one do you prefer why 89
- TOEFL T P O 23 - Integrated Writing Task 3
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Parents today are more involved in their children’s education than parents in the past. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 73
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? When teachers assign projects on which students must work together, the students learn much more effectively than when they are asked to work alone on projects. 86
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 311, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'meter' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'meters'.
Suggestion: meters
... these animals were very gigantic and 9 meter long. So, the native folks can not hunt...
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Line 13, column 177, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'animals'' or 'animal's'?
Suggestion: animals'; animal's
...raders arrived to the island when these animals population already dramatically were de...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, so, third, thus, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 28.0 30.3222958057 92% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 5.01324503311 259% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1453.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 264.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.50378787879 5.08290768461 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03089032464 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72120273586 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.609848484848 0.540411800872 113% => OK
syllable_count: 442.8 419.366225166 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.413667594 49.2860985944 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.769230769 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3076923077 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.53846153846 7.06452816374 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.23620678063 0.272083759551 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0839039631825 0.0996497079465 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0601722561625 0.0662205650399 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134178003612 0.162205337803 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0609826023618 0.0443174109184 138% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.3589403974 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 53.8541721854 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.62 12.2367328918 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.41 8.42419426049 112% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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