[Video] Q51: The passage and the figure are in agreement that the onset of the little ice age began

Explanation for Question 51 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Question 51 says the passage and the figure are in agreement that the onset 2 of the little ice age began one. So let's look into the passage first 3 and see what they have to say about when the little ice age begin. 4 And then we'll look at the figure so that we find it in the 5 third paragraph here. It says in 2012, 6 a team of scientists led by geochemist Gifford Miller strengthened the link between the 7 mystery of corruption and the onset of the little ice age. 8 So that's indicating that they're about to tell us when the ice age started 9 says by using radiocarbon dating of dead plant material from beneath the ice caps 10 on Baffin island and Iceland, as well as I settlement data. 11 And here's what it comes to determine that the cold summers and ice growth 12 began abruptly between 1275 and 1300 C. 13 So this little ice age is just a period of abnormal cooling, 14 right? 15 So the onset of these cold summers and ice growth would indicate the start 16 of that. So here it's saying they began between 1275 17 and 1300 seat. So then if we look at the figure, 18 we can see that this also corresponds, 19 so that would fall about right here. And we can see that the cooling 20 begins right here. So these two little lines correspond to 21 each other, and that would confirm that both the passage and the figure 22 agree that the little ice age started somewhere just 23 before 1300 CE. 24 And again, just for clarification on this figure, 25 this point is where this downward motion of the temperature 26 variation occurs. So like the downward and plies cooling. 27 So that's just where the cooling starts. So let's look at the answer choices 28 and see which one best matches just before 1300 CE. 29 And we see that it actually comes explicitly in those words, 30 in answer choice B.