Vocabulary
They climbed over tall, sheer mountains.
What is steep?
Who is Aldo Leopold?
The Adirondack Mountains are located in upstate...
What is New York?
Colvin and Leopold saw that logging and building roads were destroying wilderness areas.
What is logging and building roads?
Identify the signal word below:
Yesterday
From
Cause
Wonder
What is cause?
The loggers left piles of debris on the ground.
What is garbage?
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His work helped to preserve the land of the Adirondack Mountains.
Who is Verplanck Colvin?
Leopold wrote a plan to save this massive location in Arizona.
What is the Grand Canyon?
Identify the effect in the following sentences:
The forests keep the snow from evaporating or melting too fast. Too much logging would destroy the source of water for the rivers and streams.
Identify the signal word below:
Because
People
mark
However
Animals should be protected from predators like wolves and bears.
What are animals that hunt other animals?
He eventually changed his mind and said that we should protect predators AND game animals.
Who is Aldo Leopold?
This river, which is named after a state, runs through the Grand Canyon.
What is the Colorado River?
What is the cause in the following sentences:
Colvin talked to people in the government and wrote in newspapers. He explained why it was important to protect the Adirondacks. Finally the area was named a park in 1892.
What is Colvin talked to people and explained the importance of protecting the Adirondacks?
Identify the signal word:
signal
delete
control
since
What is since?
It was a spectacular scene. Thoreau was amazed by the loon's beauty.
What is amazing?
This explorer had an encounter with a bear that changed his mind about the best way to protect himself from an attack.
Who is Meriwether Lewis?
Logging helped people create these places to live.
What are homes, houses, or log cabins?
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What is the cause of the following sentences:
Leopold realized that predators are an important part of the forest community. If you remove them, you upset the balance of the community.
What is removing predators?
Identify the signal word below:
Partner
singer
according to
As a result
What is as a result?
He liked hunting game, such as deer and ducks.
What are animals that are hunted?
He took a glass of dirty ice water to a meeting to convince the government to protect the water and land.
Who is Verplanck Colvin?
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Lewis and Clark explored this area of the United States.
What is Northwestern United States.
What is the effect of the following sentences:
Leopold realized that predators are an important part of the forest community. If you remove them, you upset the balance of the community.
What is the balance of the community is upset?
Identify the signal word below:
Unfortunate
Therefore
My mother
Water
What is therefore?