WorksheetsSugaring Time
Total questions: 6
Worksheet time: 30mins
The first illustration best helps the reader understand which paragraph?
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 7
Read the chart.
1. Syrup makers tap trees
2. (a)
3. Syrup makers collect sap in buckets.
According to the Filtering section, why do syrup makers remove minerals from maple syrup?
Minerals make the syrup grainy.
Minerals change the syrups taste.
Minerals change the syrup's color.
Minerals stop the syrup from flowing.
Which section of the article contains information about the process of turning sap into syrup?
Tapping the Trees
In the Sugarhouse
Filtering
Color Grading
Which detail from the text best supports the main idea of the article?
You probably like to eat syrup on your pancakes and waffles, right? (Paragraph 1)
This usually happens in March, when Spring weather begins. (paragraph 3)
When the buckets are full, they empty the sap into a gathering tank, which is taken to the sugarhouse. (Paragraph 7)
When the days and nights stay warm, the tree leaves start to bud. (Paragraph 15)
Which sentence from the text best shows a cause-and-effect relationship?
A tree needs sap to make leaves in spring and to stay healthy year round.
When the sap is flowing up and down in the tree for many days, the syrup makers start collecting it.
Sap flows inside the tree.
Pure maple syrup is left behind.
