<p>Lol okay, there still seems to be a dispute over the first question so I’m going to hopefully settle it. In the part of the passage where she was talking to that guy (I forgot his name), she said the horses were tired of going in ovals and that she was looking forward to finally go riding through the mountains later that week. It was also stated in the passage that this discussion between her and the guy took place “a few weeks” prior to the bus ride where all of this contemplation is taking place. Thus, the answer was the one concerning riding through mountains. You had to really pay attention to detail in order to answer that one correctly.</p>
<p>Are you talking about the question that said, “Which happened first?”</p>
<p>A.) She sat on the bus.
B.) She saw laundromats.
C.) She heard the song.
D.) She rode here horse.</p>
<p>Guys, I’m still not sure about the question that asked, “What does wind chill REALLY mean?”</p>
<p>Yes, it might represent the rate at which your skin reaches the outside temperature, but that is not what it REALLY is. In other words, this is not what DEFINES wind chill. Below is a quote taken from the passage that explains how wind chill is calculated.</p>
<p>“The meteorologists would figure the rate of heat loss in watts per square meter and then try to match it up to an equivalent rate produced in low-wind conditions.”</p>
<p>Yes, it goes on to say:</p>
<p>“The language of ‘equivalent temperatures’ creates a fundamental misconception about what wind chill REALLY MEANS.”</p>
<p>And then it says:</p>
<p>“Wind chill just tells you the rate at which your skin will reach the air temperature.”</p>
<p>However, I feel like this definition of it being the rate at which your skin will reach the outside temperature is a watered down version of the real definition of it being the rate at which heat is lost.</p>
<p>@usamopro, yes.</p>
<p>Okay, so now that I know the question that everyone has been arguing about, I can say that it was definitely D.) She rode her horse.</p>
<p>She heard a song while she was on a bus which she passed by a junkyard a laundromats in. This was all after she had already left her island place & had ridden the horse up the mountain.</p>
<p>@wcclirl444
Sorry, but the answer is the latter. The top one you are talking about is how meteorologists came up with the figures for wind chill. By measuring the loss of heat, they were able to figure out an estimate for what the wind chill would feel like. That however is not what wind chill is; it is simply a way of making it in terms understandable to the public. Ultimately, the definition of wind chill is the bottom quote you quoted.</p>
<p>So in conclusion, the above quote was an experiment that compared the quantitative data found in heat loss with the wind’s speed to create a more comprehensible concept of wind chill that fit in with the concept of our degree scale of temperatures. It however was not a definition of wind chill.</p>
<p>HERE IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE: “To find temperature, the volume of mercury is observed at different temperatures.” Then later in the article it says, “So temperature is the amount of heat an object has”. </p>
<p>The definition of temperature would not be the volume of mercury at a given heat, but rather the amount of heat an object has. Do you understand that?</p>
<p>AND YET ANOTHER, BETTER EXAMPLE: “In an experiment, a dog’s happiness is found by the number of times it wags its tail per minute.” Later in the article it says that “dog happiness is a psychological phenomena that is caused by impulses in the brain that much is still unknown about.”
If you were asked to define happiness in dogs, you would not say, “Happiness = how fast the dog wags his tail”. That is simply not true. The dog tail wagging is an observable piece of data, but is not what defines happiness.</p>
<p>LAST AND POSSIBLY BEST EXAMPLE: The battery life of my phone was found by looking in the top right corner and looking at the battery percent…battery life is determined by the ability of the electrochemical cells to convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy, dependent on the amount of stored energy available. Yes, it states that my battery life is found by looking at the percent, but do you really think that the battery percent DEFINES the amount of battery life left in my battery? Of course not. It just attempts to measure the amount of battery life, nothing more.</p>
<p>None of the wind chill answers was perfect. But the rate your skin goes to outside temp is definitely the closest. It doesn’t measure temperature for sure. I had the one filled but wind chill DOESN’T equal temperature which was the only other viable answer.</p>
<p>“heat loss in watts per square meter”
Basically translates to how fast something loses heat</p>
<p>What are some facts you guys remember about the first story? Trying to find it </p>
<p>Any names:
Island name:
Key words/phrases/sentences:</p>
<p>Was one of the wind chill answers: varied?
Also, I’m not so sure about the exercising the horses. I put: helping CuoCuo round up the horses. </p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>Island was inhabited by the people of both Hawaii and New Zealand I believe.</p>
<p>I think you guys are right, but 2 of the questions in that passage were just horribly worded. On top of that, the science section was nothing like any practice material that the ACT provided. Overall, I’m just upset with them and extremely scared about what my score will be as a result & the implications of not having the score I was aiming for. </p>
<p>To be honest, a heck of a lot rides on this one number & I think it was completely irresponsible for them to do what they did (seemingly not even looking over the exam before they had millions of people take it). And, no, I’m not just saying this because I’m mad—I have taken the exam before with mixed results, but I knew that it was my fault, not theirs for not doing as well as I had wanted. This time, though, I really believe that ACT screwed up.</p>
<p>Okay, for the horse one, did you not understand that when referring to ovals, she was talking about a horse running around a track? Normally horses run around a track instead of around in the wilderness, like at horse racing tracks (although that isn’t what was exactly being said here, a good reader should have made that connection immediately).</p>
<p>Anyone have guesses about the curve? I am pretty sure I got the origin/time of seeds one wrong. All the other disputed ones I think I got. Could I still get a 35 for Reading?</p>
<p>Think I got two or three wrong. Happy with that, shouldn’t be lower than a 33 (hopefully)</p>
<p>Which ones did you think you got wrong?</p>
<p>here’s the passage you were all looking for: [The</a> Big Rhythm: A Conversation with Barry Lopez on the McKenzie River](<a href=“http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mqr;c=mqr;c=mqrarchive;idno=act2080.0044.405;rgn=main;view=text;xc=1;g=mqrg]The”>http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mqr;c=mqr;c=mqrarchive;idno=act2080.0044.405;rgn=main;view=text;xc=1;g=mqrg)
Personally, I put (and still believe that the answer was better good).</p>
<p>On another note, what’d you guys put for the question that was like “what were the weather forecasters true motive in giving wind chill numbers”</p>
<p>make winter weather more interesting</p>
<p>Same answer as Flickor</p>
<p>“So when I say a literature of hope, I mean a literature that gives you the opportunity to be hopeful about your own circumstances or circumstances for your family or your larger community.”</p>
<p>He’s not trying to change the world, he is trying to inspire others, IMO</p>
<p>Does anyone know when the scores will be available? I took it with writing. Do they send you an email or do you have to keep checking?</p>