Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they challenge the specific theories presented in the reading passage.
The reading passage claims that there are three possible explanations about what happened at the end of the Triassic period and caused a mass-extinction event, yet the listening, considering the idea that each of the theory are is wrong, does not agree with the reading.
First of all, the passage claims that the fluctuating sea level resulted in the destruction of shallow-ocean species, which then caused a profound effect on food chains worldwide, leading to mass extinctions. However, according to the listening, the sea level at the end of the Triassic period is usually going down over several million years, and a gradual depressing change of the sea level can be adapted by the costal and shallow-ocean species. Unless the change of sea level is mush more sudden, it won’t have a widespread negative impact of the species. So, it will not result in the destruction of them. Therefore, the theory that the fluctuating sea level caused the extinction was denied.
Moreover, the passage holds the opinion that widespread volcanic activity caused atmospheric SO2 to rise, then devastated many species and led to the extinctions. On the contrary, the professor says in the lecture that the climate cooling caused by volcanic activity was a short period of few years when SO2 is in the atmosphere, and in the same time, these SO2 will combine with water, then change into rain, then be cleared out in the atmosphere so SO2 will not cause a long period cooling of the climate and a massive extinction. Thus, the theory is that climate cooling is also impossible.
Finally, the passage believes that an asteroid is blocked long enough for most plants to die and many animal species to then starve. On the other hand, as far as the listening is concerned, scientists were already determined a crater, and found out the crater was 200 12 million before the extinction, and it will be too long to not result in the extinction of plants and animals. Hence, the theory that an asteroid hit caused the mass-extinction is not a good explanation.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, hence, however, moreover, so, then, therefore, thus, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1707.0 1373.03311258 124% => OK
No of words: 346.0 270.72406181 128% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93352601156 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31289638616 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7846832058 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 145.348785872 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491329479769 0.540411800872 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 514.8 419.366225166 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.51434878587 330% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 13.0662251656 92% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 21.2450331126 132% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 94.0890166574 49.2860985944 191% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.25 110.228320801 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.8333333333 21.698381199 133% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.25 7.06452816374 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0845255006696 0.272083759551 31% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0335159417541 0.0996497079465 34% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.021219625873 0.0662205650399 32% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0550596159037 0.162205337803 34% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.016105021421 0.0443174109184 36% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 13.3589403974 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 53.8541721854 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.91 12.2367328918 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 63.6247240618 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.7273730684 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.498013245 126% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.2008830022 116% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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