What detail supports the point that "steamboats and railroads made it easier for Americans to go places!"?
trains and steamboats go faster and people could travel long distances more quickly
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Describe how people traveled long ago
people traveled by foot and horse, they also traveled in boats powered by paddles or wind.
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What is similar about what is used to power boats and trains?
they both use steam engines
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What is different about how people traveled in the beginning of the passage to how people traveled at the end of the passage?
trips took a long time at the beginning of the passage but at the end of the passage travel was faster
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what is used to power a steam engine?
boiling water
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how does the author support the point that few plants grow in the desert?
deserts are dry and get very little rain
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Describe how both the desert and the rainforest are special
they both are homes to animals and plants
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How can you compare and steamboat to a steam engine?
they are both fast and use boiling water to power
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How is the desert from the rainforest?
deserts are very dry, they get very little rain, few plants grow there
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using the details from the passage Desert or rainforest, what grows in the rainforest?
trees and many kinds of plants
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What detail does the author use to support the point that "Now people could travel long distances more quickly"?
trains could go even faster than steamboats
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describe the tree's leaves in the rainforest
they make a kind of covering called the canopy
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How can you compare a Desert to a Rainforest?
they are both special places
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How is the rainforest different from the desert?
they are wet and warm, they get lots of rain and many plants grow there
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use the details in the passage Desert or Rainforest to describe the rainforest
wet and warm places
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Why does the author use text boxes?
to give the reader more information
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Read the first paragraph under the heading Animals Have Adaptations, what is the main topic?
some adaptations make eating easy
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How is an adaptation connected to living things?
it is a body part or behavior that helps living things
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Water in a pond is nonliving. A fish in the same pond is living. Are they part of the same environment? Why?
Yes, because an environment is made up of both living and nonliving things
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Read these sentences:
Oxygen is a kind of gas that is in the air.
Animals need to breathe oxygen to live.
Plants give off oxygen.
What questions can you ask to help you understand the connection between animals and oxygen?
Why do animals need oxygen?
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Look on page 2, What are the 4 text features on this page?
What is Heading, Bold Print, Captions, and Photographs
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What is the main topic of the book, Animals and Plants?
Animals and Plants
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How does a kangaroo keep her young safe?
in her pouch
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look at the fast fact on page 6, what makes the buzzing sound we hear from bees?
their wings are moving back and forth very fast
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What questions can you ask to help you understand more about fish scales using the caption:
Fish have scales that bend. The scales help
fish move through water.