{"id":"cb_question_bank:7ad40094-846d-407c-9677-8a1b08bd0a91","source_id":"cb_question_bank","source_item_id":"7ad40094-846d-407c-9677-8a1b08bd0a91","external_id":"dc77d8af-b008-45d8-9aca-c7b953781539","ibn":null,"question_id":"10cd0327","program":"SAT","module":"english","domain_code":"EOI","domain":"Expression of Ideas","skill_code":"SYN","skill":"Rhetorical Synthesis","difficulty":"H","score_band":7,"answer_type":"mcq","answer_source":"key","layout_warning":null,"form_id":null,"module_number":null,"position":null,"stem":"The student wants to present the study’s findings to an audience already familiar with thermal inversions. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?","stimulus":"While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: A thermal inversion is a phenomenon where a layer of atmosphere is warmer than the layer beneath it. In 2022, a team of researchers studied the presence of thermal inversions in twenty-five gas giants. Gas giants are planets largely composed of helium and hydrogen. The team found that gas giants featuring a thermal inversion were also likely to contain heat-absorbing metals. One explanation for this relationship is that these metals may reside in a planet’s upper atmosphere, where their absorbed heat causes an increase in temperature.","stimulus_html":"<p>While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>A thermal inversion is a phenomenon where a layer of atmosphere is warmer than the layer beneath it.</li>\n<li>In 2022, a team of researchers studied the presence of thermal inversions in twenty-five gas giants.</li>\n<li>Gas giants are planets largely composed of helium and hydrogen.</li>\n<li>The team found that gas giants featuring a thermal inversion were also likely to contain heat-absorbing metals.</li>\n<li>One explanation for this relationship is that these metals may reside in a planet’s upper atmosphere, where their absorbed heat causes an increase in temperature.</li>\n</ul>","stem_html":"<p>The student wants to present the study’s findings to an audience already familiar with thermal inversions. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?</p>","rationale_html":"<p>Choice C is the best answer. It describes the study’s findings in a way that assumes the audience is already familiar with thermal inversions. </p><p>Choice A is incorrect. This choice doesn’t fully describe the findings of the study, because it doesn’t include anything about thermal inversions. Choice B is incorrect. This choice doesn’t describe the study’s findings. Choice D is incorrect. This choice isn’t suited for an audience already familiar with thermal inversion. A familiar audience wouldn’t need to have the term defined. </p>","correct_answer":["C"],"has_media":false,"has_mathml":false,"has_table":false,"source_created_at":"2023-08-02T20:25:59.372000+00:00","source_updated_at":"2023-08-02T20:25:59.372000+00:00","options":[{"label":"A","content_html":"<p>Heat-absorbing metals may reside in a planet’s upper atmosphere.</p>","ord":0},{"label":"B","content_html":"<p>The team studied thermal inversions in twenty-five gas giants, which are largely composed of helium and hydrogen.</p>","ord":1},{"label":"C","content_html":"<p>Researchers found that gas giants featuring a thermal inversion were likely to contain heat-absorbing metals, which may reside in the planets’ upper atmospheres.</p>","ord":2},{"label":"D","content_html":"<p>Gas giants were likely to contain heat-absorbing metals when they featured a layer of atmosphere warmer than the layer beneath it, researchers found; this phenomenon is known as a thermal inversion.</p>","ord":3}],"attribution":{"source_id":"cb_question_bank","source_name":"College Board digital SAT question bank (community dump)","rights_holder":"College Board","canonical_url":"https://satsuitequestionbank.collegeboard.org/","retrieved_from":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mdn522/sat-question-bank/main/data/cb-digital-questions.json","attribution":"SAT practice questions © College Board, from the official SAT Suite Question Bank. Retrieved via the community dump at github.com/mdn522/sat-question-bank.","disclaimer":"SAT® and PSAT/NMSQT® are trademarks registered by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, does not sponsor, and does not endorse this project.","license":"College Board copyright; source repository carries no licence. Local use only.","redistributable":false,"item_count":2017}}