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Read the sentence from paragraph 3.
Streams, stream banks, and the low lands around them provide important habitat for animals and plants that share the urban /suburban landscape with us.
What does habitat mean as it is used in the sentence?
What is environment
Which sentence states a central idea of paragraphs 1 and 2?
What i streams are normal parts of natural settings.
How does the author use illustration to show the ideas presented in paragraph 9-10?
What is by showing where the water goes in each setting.
How does the author introduce the idea of urban streams?
What is by pointing out that urban setting also have streams.
What is the author's purpose for using the phrase "Often they lie low" in paragraph 2?
What is to show that urban streams are not easily seen.
Instead it hits impervious surfaces like hard pavement and rooftops and has no chance to infiltrate the soil.
What is the meaning of impervious as it is used in the sentence?
What is resistant.
How are paragraphs 4 and 5 support the central idea that streams are important to urban and rural settings?
What is they detail similarities and differences of both types of streams.
What does the photograph portray that helps the reader understand the passage?
What is where the Rat lives.
Based on the information in paragraph 8, what inference can be drawn about water movement in cities?
What is natural waterways are overloaded with rainwater.
What quotation from paragraph 2 support the answer to Part A?
What is flowing under sidewalks
Read the sentence from paragraph 7.
If all this extra water is diverted directly into a stream channel, several important changes will occur.
What is the meaning of diverted as it is used in the sentence?
What is redirected.
What is the central of the passage?
What is city streams are different from streams that are found in the forest and other natural areas.
Which paragraphs does the photograph help the reader understand?
What is paragraph 1-4.
Based on paragraph 12-15, how does the Mole feel during the boat ride?
What is delighted.
Read the sentence from paragraph 1.
As he sat on the grass and looked across the river, a dark hole in the bank opposite, just above the water's edge, caught his eye, and dreamily he fell to considering what a nice, snug dwelling-place it would make for an animal with few wants and fond of a bijou riverside residence, above flood level and remote from noise and dust.
What does remote mean as it is used in the sentence?
What is isolated.
What central idea does the author convey during the boat ride?
What is the mole and the rat develop an unexpected friendship.
How does the the use of the words bright, twinkle, and like a tiny star impact the tone of the passage?
What is the words develop a positive outlook.
What is the author's purpose in the passage?
What is to inform readers about differences between rural and urban streams.
Read the sentence from paragraph 12.
Then he held up his fore-paw as the Mole stepped gingerly down.
What is carefully.
What is a theme of the passage?
What is taking chances can lead to new adventures.
Read sentence from paragraph 14.What? cried the Rat, open mouthed: Never been in a you never wlll I what have you been doing then?
What is by indicating the depth of Rat's devotion to boating
Which quotation supports the answer to Part A?
What is Urban streams tends to carry more water at a faster speed after a storm than their country cousins.