October 2010 ACT Science Thread

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<p>More vegetation would be more resistant to erosion, that wouldnt make sense.</p>

<p>@ jubilant</p>

<p>There was one about capacitors iirc. The last one had something to do with a chemical reaction. Also, was there a fighting scientists passage? Amy’s question made me think and I honestly can’t remember one.</p>

<p>i put more vegetation, less resistance to erosion…which doesn’t make any sense…thats what the table said though</p>

<p>@ Linger, I know it doesn’t make any sense but it’s what the table said.</p>

<p>Was there an option for less vegetation less resistance to erosion? I thought I put that one, but I’m not even sure if that was a choice.</p>

<p>No it was less vegetation more erosion. The passage said high grazing was for animals</p>

<p>^thats what i put. Didnt they ask to look solely at the run off rate? If they did then I think the ‘more vegetation/less resistance’ is not correct.</p>

<p>the one with battery charging up for some reason confused me pretty badly. wat was the main idea of that one?</p>

<p>Iirc, the heavily grazed terrace, had a rate of erosion of 26 or so. Therefore, less vegetation (which would result if the terrace was heavily grazed) leads to less resistance to erosion or, in other words, more erosion.</p>

<p>Exactly junebug</p>

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<p>ie less vegetation, and less resistance to erosion (more erosion) </p>

<p>More erosion was not an answer choice i believe, because it means the same thing as less resistance to erosion.</p>

<p>agree with junebug 100% (do you remember which letter it was?)</p>

<p>Junebug, thinking about it, you’re right. My mistake. I think I skipped over “grazed” and assumed it was heavily vegetated, that’s why.</p>

<p>The answer must’ve been less vegetation, less resistance</p>

<p>Ugh, this was the first time I took the ACT and I only practiced using the ACT 36 Barrons book… ;_;</p>

<p>I got the vegetation, resistance problem wrong since I put more/less :X </p>

<p>Seriously, this science section… was… unbelievably HARD.
There were so many graphs/tables/words I didn’t even know where to look for the answer!
I went by Barron’s method of doing the data(5Q) first, research(6Q) second, conflicting viewpoints(7Q) last so I actually did the cars first and it was actually ok BUT I think I spent too much time on it because I didn’t get to READ 3-4 passages so I had to bubble in like 15-20 questions randomly :confused:
Sigh, I really hope I get at least 20 in the science section but I wouldn’t be surprised if I didn’t… PLEASE PLEASE let the Science section have a BIG curve!
It blew me away! I was just so effing CONFUSED! ARGH. WHY DO THEY HAVE TO HAVE A SCIENCE SECTION D:</p>

<p>English + Reading was ok, Math - Had a huge coughing fit and couldn’t finish 5-6 questions and I had a few I wasn’t sure … @_@ This does not look good.
■■■.</p>

<p>I felt confident on the science this time around, though I can hardly remember any of it now. All that comes to mind was a question about how atomic radii changes across a period. Does anyone remember putting “decreased then increased?”</p>

<p>Negative charge was one way positive was the other. IDR which was which though.</p>

<p>Science, as a whole, killed me.</p>

<p>Atomic radius of the elements decrease across the Period from left to right.</p>

<p>By the way, the most confusing part of this for me was…
In the second table, where it said defoliation, was complete supposed to mean completely defoliated, or complete with all leaves. And was none supposed to mean no defoliation or no leaves? So ambiguous, took like 5 minute just to figure that out…</p>

<p>around what score would you get on the science if you miss 5 or 6 questions?</p>

<p>^^on this test probably like a 30</p>