Eat Bugs, Save the Planet?

(Easy) Raising insects could help…

• bring back an important creature into the food chain.

• bring back an important creature into the food chain.

• feed the growing amount of people on Earth.

• save animals that people want to protect.

Eating insects would help us…(Easy) Think about what the text said.

• eat at restaurants more often.

• be less picky eaters.

• use less water.

• save money.

If people ate more insects, the planet would…(Easy, look in the text)

• get warmer because insects release harmful gases.

• smell better because there would be fewer cows.

• have fewer effects from climate change.

• need fewer pesticides to spray in fields.

What is the main idea of the article?(Medium Question).

• If people start eating crickets, climate change will soon come to an end.

• Though no one does it today, in the future people may have to eat insects.

• Someday bugs may be more popular to eat than common foods we enjoy now.

• There would be many benefits to the Earth if people started to eat more insects.

What is the connection between eating healthy and eating insects?(Medium)

• Insects are too small to be healthy for people to eat.

• Spraying insects with pesticides makes them healthy to eat.

• Eating insects is better for your health than eating many other animals.

• Insects are raised in healthier conditions than the way other animals are raised.

(Medium) As it is used in paragraph 2, "estimate" most closely means —

• to know

• to guess

• to count

• to wonder