His plan is to build a geo-referenced database so that anyone can research the Nike missile sites through Google Earth.
Those missiles became obsolete with the advent of long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles (opens in new tab) (ICBMs).ĭavid Tewksbury, a GIS (geographic information system) specialist at Hamilton College in New York, aimed to preserve a visual record of the abandoned Nike missile launch sites before they vanish - either as a result of being reclaimed by nature, repurposed by the military or redeveloped. Some of those missiles even carried nuclear warheads. Nike missiles, which were supersonic surface-to-air missiles, sat ready to launch at nearly 300 sites across the United States during a period of the Cold War, from 1954 to the 1970s. (Image credit: Google Earth) (opens in new tab) If you get to a bit of confusing wording that isn't in a key sentence, just skip over it.This Google Earth image shows the Oahu Defense Area in Hawaii, which was equipped with missiles in open air with earthen revetments, or embankments, between paired launch sites, shown here in 1968. You can basically just skim over all the other parts of the passage. When you get to a sentence like this, make sure you slow down and really digest the meaning. Also look for "interesting" punctuation such as colons or dashes, and transition words such as therefore or conversely.
As a general rule, these sentences will be at the beginnings and ends of paragraphs, as well as in the introduction and conclusion.
To do this, you want to do a high-level skim of the passage until you see something that indicates that the sentence may be important to the passage as a whole or that a question may ask about it.
Your goal is to as fast as you can, comprehend the parts of the passage that will help you answer the questions. For the reading section, one thing I can suggest is to make sure that you read the passage effectively.
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