The Little Ice Age was a period of unusually cold temperature in many parts of the world that lasted from about the year 1350 until 1900C.E.. There were unusually harsh winters, and glaciers grew larger in many areas. Scientists have long wondered what caused the Little Ice Age. Several possible causes have been proposed.
First, the cooling may have been caused by disrupting of ocean currents. Before the Little Ice Age, there was a period of unusually warm weather during which glaciers melted. These melted glaciers sent a large amount of cold freshwater into the Gulf Stream, a large ocean current that strongly affects Earth's climate. Some scientists believe that this freshwater was enough to temporarily disrupt the Gulf Stream. Such a disruption could have caused the Little Ice Age.
Second, volcanic eruption could have caused the Little Ice Age. When volcanoes erupt, they send dark clouds of dust and sulfur gas into the atmosphere. These clouds, which can spread over great areas, block some sunlight from reaching Earth's surface. This can decrease the global temperatures. Scientists know of several volcanic eruption that took place during the Little Ice Age.
Third, substantial decreases in human populations may have contributed indirectly to the cooling of the climate. For a variety of reason(disease, warfare, social disruption), the human population just before the Little Ice Age and during the early part of it was lower than it had been in a long time. Forest trees started growing on fields that were no longer used for agriculture. Since trees absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, they decrease the greenhouse effect that keeps Earth warm. With more forest trees absorbing carbon dioxide, earth became cooler.
The article states that there are three possible causes of the Little Ice age and provides three reasons for supports. However, the professor explains that the arguments in the passage is out of date and refutes the author's reasons.
First, the reading claims that the Gulf stream distributions cause a decline in the average temperature. The professor refutes this point by saying that distributing happens only in Europe and North America. He states that the temperature of the other hemisphere of the earth also declines remarkably without any distribution of its Gulf stream.
Second, the article posits that the eruption from volcanic activity could have decreased the global temperature and cause the Little Ice age. the professor says that there are no reports indicate phenomena that appear with the presence of a large amount of dust. According to the professor, the amount of volcanic dust in the globe is not enough to produce the Little Ice age.
Third, the reading says that the forest tree is the third possible cause of the Little Ice age. According to the passage, trees decrease the global temperature by absorbing carbon dioxide from the air. The professor opposes this point by explaining that this effect of trees does not have enough time to work. He argues that trees now are not living long enough to decrease the global temperature.
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...mperature and cause the Little Ice age. the professor says that there are no report...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, second, so, third
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 30.3222958057 86% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1141.0 1373.03311258 83% => OK
No of words: 225.0 270.72406181 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07111111111 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.87298334621 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51919642293 2.5805825403 98% => OK
Unique words: 115.0 145.348785872 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.511111111111 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 359.1 419.366225166 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 15.0025460802 49.2860985944 30% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 95.0833333333 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.75 21.698381199 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.66666666667 7.06452816374 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 4.33554083885 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.27373068433 187% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.105918330618 0.272083759551 39% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0413060509802 0.0996497079465 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0429432825099 0.0662205650399 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0642791378568 0.162205337803 40% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.037582592055 0.0443174109184 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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