The Buffalo Are Back - Wonders 4th Grade

no longer in existence

• ecosystem

• imbalance

• extinct

• flourished

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

What is the MAIN idea of the section titled “The Buffalo”?

• The buffalo provided the Indians with all their needs.

• Loss of buffalo killed the prairie.

• There were 75 million buffalo in North America.

• Buffalo changed the prairie.

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

all living and non living things in a particular area

• flourished

• ecosystem

• rippled

• crumbled

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.3.4

What happened when the grasshoppers chewed the fragile crops growing on the plains?

• buffalo grass grew back

• nothing grew back

• plants with fragile roots grew back

• plants with tough roots grew back

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

Long periods of time with little to no rain.

• Imbalance

• Droughts

• Rippled

• flourished

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

lack of balance

• extinct

• crumble

• fragile

• imbalance

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

broken into small pieces

• ecosystem

• crumbled

• fragile

• extinct

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

What conclusion can you draw from the selection?

• Cattle are important to the farming industry

• All farmers use contour plowing.

• It is important to protect both the buffalo and the native grasses.

• The buffalo population will never be in trouble again.

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

formed small waves

• rippled

• droughts

• flourashed

• imbalance

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CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

Who discovered three hundred buffalo in Montana?

• General George A. Custer

• President Theodore Roosevelt

• W. T. Hornaday

• Sioux Chief Sitting Bull

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.5.2