The Past Tense
The Date Palm
Vocabulary
wonderful
wood
to feed
leaf / leaves
ago
southern
stone
art
museums
The Water Hyacinth
Vocabulary
hate
become
walk
travel
fish
think
take care of
just
collect
cut
machines
fertilizer
better
feed
methane gas
energy
love
Rice
hate
become
walk
travel
fish
think
take care of
just
collect
cut
machines
fertilizer
better
feed
methane gas
energy
love
Rice
Vocabulary
grass
even
eastern
probably
soil
west
insects
brooms
rugs
sandals
roof
1. Why do some people eat almost nothing but rice? People eat rice because it is inexpensive and available.
2. In what countries is rice an important food? Rice is probably an important food in China, Japan, Morocco, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and other countries in Africa and South America.
3. What kind of plant is rice? Rice is a grass.
4. How many kinds of rice are there? There are more than 7,000 kinds of rice.
5. Scientists have two ideas about where rice came from. What are they?
Scientists think that it started to grow in southern Asia and in West Africa.
6. What does upland mean? It means an area that is high up away from water and probably on a hill or mountain. Upland soil is dry.
7. Why do rice farmers use fertilizer? Farmers use fertilizer to grow the crops.
8. Why do most farmers do the work of growing rice by hand? Farmers do the work by hand because it is the same way farmers worked hundreds of years ago.
9. How do farmers kill insects? Farmers poison them.
10. People eat rice. What are other ways people use rice? People use the rice plant to make baskets, brooms, rugs, sandals, and roofs for their houses.
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