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Allied with Green and Big Rocks' Balancing Act

  • Game Code: 2020842
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  • Allied With Green: Why does Lucy choose to write about “the color green” for her paper?
    She notices green things wherever she goes.
    A drought has been threatening green plants.
    Green plants are important to her.
    Green is her favorite color.
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  • Allied With Green: Why does Lucy’s father feel guilty?
    The plants he put at the restaurant were stolen overnight.
    He demonstrated against highways, but now he drives on them.
    There are more parking lots now than when he was in college.
    He plants trees on the highway median, but people steal them
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  • Allied With Green: What does the author mean by the statement, “No one goes to Seattle to see the concrete.” (line 59)?
    People don't respect what Seattle has to offer.
    Seattle is too far to travel just to see buildings.
    People go to Seattle because of all the green space there.
    The buildings in Seattle are not very interesting.
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  • Allied With Green: Imagery is
    painting a picture
    words and phrases that appeal to the senses
    comparing two unlike things using like or as.
    personification
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  • Allied With Green: Theme of a story is
    the sequence of main events that happens in the story.
    a message about life or human nature.
    tells the reader information about the story
    the main idea of the story
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  • Allied With Green: Why does the author describe air and green as “close cousins” (line 77)?
    Both need tending
    People take both for granted.
    Both are necessary for life
    Both are threatened by pollution.
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  • Allied With Green: What is the theme of Allied With Green?
    Don't hurt animals,and respect living things.
    Respect only trees not leaves or anything else nature.
    Don't step on leaves,or you will die.
    You should respect and appreciate the environment and plants
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  • Allied With Green: What supports the idea that not many people care about nature and going green?
    When people volunteer to help with nature.
    When people water their plants.
    Lucy teacher once have her a C on a test about going green.
    People helping plant trees.
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  • Allied With Green: What DOESN'T support the idea that some people care about going green and also love nature.
    When people water and take care of any plants.
    When people pick up trash around plants and nature.
    When people take care of their trees
    People who throw trash on the road or treat nature horribly.
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  • Allied With Green: Which of the following is a theme?
    There are a lot of students in this school.
    Nature
    It is important to take part in your community.
    I like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
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  • Allied With Green: Using the metaphor in paragraph 3, the author emphasizes that Lucy-
    spends time looking for signs of nature in places she knows
    wants to help plant good landscaping near roads and rivers
    believes people who are in hospitals need to see nature
    notices nature continues to grow in cities and poor homes
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  • Allied With Green: Early in the story, the statement "That’s how everything starts" is meant to show that ____________.
    being “green” is essential to the character of Lucy
    belief in “the color green” should begin in childhood
    talking about the environment leads to arguments
    the world could not survive without its plant life
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  • Allied With Green: The author mentions Seattle, Dallas, and San Antonio to suggest that ____________.
    people in many places appreciate green spaces
    places have different ideas of how to care for nature
    cities are in danger of having no green spaces
    only a few cities are trying to care for the environment
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  • Allied With Green: Robert Isabell is important to Lucy because ____________.
    his life represented a skill that she would like to have
    he traveled the world in search of interesting plants
    he was a party planner known throughout New York
    his beliefs about the environment are similar to her own
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  • Allied With Green: The context clues in paragraph 10 suggest that demonstrated is the act of —.
    showing how to complete a task by example
    shaming people who steal plants
    doing homework from a professor
    openly protesting beliefs toward an issue
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  • Allied With Green: The author uses personification in paragraphs 11–12 to —.
    indicate that nature has power over people
    suggest that nature improves happiness
    express that nature adds beauty to daily life
    show that nature brings objects to life
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