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🌱 Small but Mighty

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👉 Question: What do small organisms help return to the 🟫 soil (土壤) so plants can grow?

Nutrients (养分).

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👉 Question: Why are 🌿 tiny (微小的) organisms that break down plant and animal material (动植物材料) important for the environment (环境)?

They keep the cycle going by recycling nutrients.

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👉 Question: Without 🦠 smaller organisms (微生物), what would happen to the energy (能量) and process (过程) that maintain (维持) the environment?

The cycle would stop, soil would not get nutrients, and life could not continue.

📖 Vocabulary Challenge

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👉 Question: What does 🌱 environment (环境) mean?

✅ Answer: The place where plants, animals, and people live.

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👉 Question: Which phrase means “help scientists with their research (协助科学家进行研究)”?

🧑‍🔬 assist scientists with their research.

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👉 Question: Which adjective describes something that may disappear forever, like the 🐞 nine-spotted ladybug?

✅ Answer: ☠️ extinct (灭绝的).

🔬 Science in Action

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👉 Question: What does it mean to 📝 record information (记录信息) in a science project?

✅ Answer: To write down or save what you see.

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👉 Question: The article says there are 🔢 590 million observations (5.9 亿次观察) on eBird. What are these observations about?

✅ Answer: About where birds live and what people saw.

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👉 Question: Why do scientists ask people to ⬆️ upload (上传) photos to apps like 🐦 iNaturalist?

✅ Answer: Because it helps them identify species and study the 🌱 environment (环境).

📝 Prove It!

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👉 Question: If someone says "Smaller organisms are not important," how could you use the word 🔄 cycle (循环) to prove them wrong?

✅ Answer: Smaller organisms are part of the cycle that keeps plants and animals alive.

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👉 Question: Use 🌱 environment (环境) in a sentence to explain why protecting small organisms matters.

✅ Answer: Small organisms keep the environment healthy.

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👉 Question: Imagine you are in a debate. Someone says, "We don’t need to study ground dwellers (🐾 地面生物)." How would you use evidence from the reading to challenge this idea?

✅ Answer: Without ground dwellers, nutrients wouldn’t return to the 🟫 soil (土壤), and plants couldn’t grow.

🤔 Critical Thinking

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👉 Question: Why do you think many people don’t notice 🦠 smaller organisms (微生物)?

✅ Answer: Because they are tiny and live underground or in places people don’t look.

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👉 Question: If 🐞 rare species (稀有物种) disappear, what effect could this have on the 🌱 environment (环境)?

✅ Answer: The environment could lose balance and other plants or animals might suffer.

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👉 Question: Imagine scientists stop studying citizen science (🧪 公民科学) projects. What problems might happen in the future?

✅ Answer: We might lose important data, not notice when species become ☠️ extinct (灭绝的), and fail to protect the environment.