medium · Act reading
A science writer explains: "Honeybees navigate by the sun, but the sun moves across the sky throughout the day. A bee that memorized a single bearing in the morning would, by afternoon, fly off course by tens of degrees. Instead, bees carry an internal clock that compensates for the sun's drift, adjusting their remembered angle as the hours pass. In effect, a foraging bee performs a continuous calculation most of us would need a chart to manage." As it is used in the passage, the word "compensates" most nearly means:
- pays back
- corrects for
- apologizes
- rewards
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