Potatoes on Rooftops
Living Green
The Good Garden
Parrots over Puerto Rico
Vocabulary
100

This is another name for a vertical garden.

What is a "living wall."

100

What Bo does in line 7 to help save water.

What is turning off the water while brushing teeth.

100

She is left in charge of her family's garden.

Who is Maria Luz Duarte?

100

The sound given to the parrots by the author.

What is "iguaca, iguaca."

100

Simple and not impressive.

What is humble?

200

The former South African president who spent 27 years in prison.

Nelson Mandela

200

Bo's brother does this in the winter when he is cold.

What is turning up the heat?

200

This is a nickname for a person who sells seeds at an unfair price.

What is a coyote.

200

The first group of people to arrive in Puerto Rico.

Who were the Tainos?

200

Created by humans rather than nature.

What is artificial?

300

The number of people who grow food in urban areas.

What is 800 million?

300
The students are looking for this item at the end of the text.

What are scissors?

300

The name for the small steps that Maria Luz creates for her family's garden.

What are terraces.

300

This is what destroyed the Spanish Settlers homes in Puerto Rico.

What are hurricanes?

300

To say or do the opposite.

What is contradict?
400

During World War I, The National War Garden Commission decided to solve the food shortage problem by doing this.

What is growing food on a smaller scale closer to home?

400
Grace suggests doing this in paragraph 20.

What is buying less and saving money?

400

The type of seeds that Don Pedro gives to Maria Luz to grow at home.

What are radish seeds?

400
These two types of creatures invaded the parrots nesting holes.

What are black rats and honeybees?

400

An unusual or interesting sight.

What is a spectacle?

500

These are plants that are grown in water, instead of soil.

What are hydroponics?

500

In a play, it's the text in parenthesis.

What are stage directions/acting directions.

500

This is what Don Pedro makes from dead leaves, corn husks, and bean pods.

What is compost?

500

The name of a place where scientists take parrots to help build the population.

What is an aviary.

500
To poke quickly with a great deal of power.

What is jabbing?

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