Wood Wide Web

Why do authors need to use evidence?

• to support their ideas

• to prove what they say

• to prove their opinions

• to become a detective

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CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

Which detail from the text shows how trees use mushrooms to communicate?

• "did you know that dep underground in the soil tress talk to each other

• "Of course trees don't really talk in words"

• "A mushroom is the part of a fungus that sticks up above the ground"

• "Hyphae connect themselves to tree roots"

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

Trees use the hyphae as....

Which piece of evidence illustrates how Suzanne Simard discovered the "wood wide web"?

• "In the fall, paper birch trees drop their leaves and can no longer make sugar?"

• Then she fed other trees a special kind of nutrient she could trace."

• "A scientist named Suzanne Simard discovered it in 1997."

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CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

According to the article, how can hyphae hurt trees?

• They also stretch from root system to root system, like an underground network.

• Hyphae pick up nutrients and water from soil.

• The chemicals travel through the tree, down its roots, and into the hyphae network.

• Hyphae may pick a favorite kind of tree and ignore others.

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

What genre is this story?

• realistic fiction

• fantasy fiction

• informational text

• poetry