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The Amazing Rainforest and Extreme Places to Live

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Nonfiction Text Features | Jack Hartmann

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Multiple Choice

What is the main reason people live in Antarctica?

• To enjoy the warm weather.

• To study animals, ice, and climate.

• To explore new types of plants.

• To grow crops in the snow.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best explains why people use camels in the Sahara Desert?

• Camels help them move across the sand in the heat.

• Camels can swim in the desert rivers.

• Camels are the only animals in the desert.

• Camels are used for food and water in the desert.

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Use a vocabulary word from the story to create your own sentence.

Wednesday
02/26/2025

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Select the three responses that best summarizes the article "The Amazing Rainforest".

• The Amazon is full of rivers, and boats provide the main transportation on the Amazon’s waterways.

• The Amazon is one of the most spectacular and exciting places on Earth, full of life and adventure!

• One of the largest and most amazing places on Earth, the Amazon Rainforest supports a large variety of plants and wildlife that have adapted to the hot humid environment.

• The Amazon Rainforest helps keep the Earth’s weather stable, provides oxygen, food, medicine and shelter. We need to protect it for future generations.

• The rainforest gets a lot of rain all year long.

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Select the three responses that best summarizes the article "Extreme Places".

• The people living in these extreme places deal with tough conditions, like the cold in Antarctica, the heat in the Sahara, and the tall heights of Mount Everest.

• Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth.

• Living in extreme places on Earth can be both exciting and hard.

• Living in extreme places can be hard, but it is also an exciting adventure to survive in such unique spots.

• The Sahara Desert is very hot, with temperatures over 130°F, and the people who live there have special vehicles to help them travel and survive in the heat.

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What is the author’s purpose in writing the story Extreme Places to Live? Use details from the text to explain your answer.

Thursday
02/27/2025

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Which option best answers the prompt?

• Because it is a cool place to live.

• The Amazon Rainforest is important to our planet because it helps keep the Earth’s weather stable and gives us oxygen.

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Which example best supports your answer?

• First, it is home to a variety of plants and animals.

• For example, it rains a lot in the rainforest.

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Which evidence best supports your answer?

• The text says, “It has more than 400 billion trees and hundreds of thousand of different species of plants and animals.”

• The table in the text shows that in the month of May it rains an average of 10 inches.

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Which example best supports your answer?

• Second, the rainforest creates a lot of our oxygen.

• In addition, the rainforest needs to be protected.

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Which evidence best supports your answer?

• The text says that the Amazon Rainforest is called the "lungs of the Earth" because it makes a lot of the air we breathe”.

• The text says, “The rainforest is a spectacular place for wildlife, and the animals have adapted to the hot, humid environment”.

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Which sentence best connects my evidence?

• Without the Amazon Rainforest’s extreme weather and trees, our weather would not be stable and we would not have enough oxygen to breathe.

• The Amazon Rainforest is a super cool place that I would like to visit!

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Friday
02/28/2025

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