Answer:
The answer is: It establishes the credibility of the author.
Explanation:
This is an excerpt from John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir. John Muir, America's pioneer conservationist and father of the national park system. This passage demonstrates his knowledge of the area as well as his familiarity with the various tree species which inhabit it.
"daddy" she whispered "please" she heard the car travel down the road. that is the rising action in this story
The presence or introduction into the environment of a substance which has a harmful or poisonous effects
Answer:
1. Urban.
2. Linear settlement.
3. False.
4. True.
5. True.
6. True.
7. True.
Explanation:
Any region or place where a community is established or started is generally referred to as a settlement. It can either be a small sized community known as a rural area or large community of people known as an urban area.
1. A metropolitan area usually contains an urban area.
2. A rural community is likely to have started as a linear settlement near a river.
3. False: The substantial exchange of goods between cities, states, or countries is called trade route. It is called commerce.
A trade route refers to the path used for the buying and selling of goods between the producer and the customer.
4. True: Cluster settlements are an example of a metropolitan area.
5. True: A suburb is usually part of an urban area.
6. True: Economies of rural areas are often built around agriculture, forestry, mining and recreation.
7. True: A grid settlement is laid out according to a network of transportation routes.
Excerpt 1
I lay in bed, quivering underneath my blankets, staring up at the ceiling above me. I heard the pattering of feet, like a small child running on tiptoe. I turned onto my side and closed my eyes. Something was in the attic.
"It's just my imagination," I said quietly.
Scenes from earlier that day played like a movie in my mind. I saw my family's car turning off the highway. I watched as our car turned onto a winding road. The sky was cloudy, and the wind rustled through the Spanish moss hanging from the cypress trees. We drove into the darkness of the trees' shadows.
Excerpt 4
Jeremy raced to the beach and scrambled up onto a log. He pretended it was a spaceship. "Vroom! Roar!" The spaceship blasted off. Jeremy pretended he was soaring through space, searching for flying saucers.
That's when he noticed a small black head poking up from the water. Its two beady eyes stared at him. This creature was definitely not pretend. "Yikes, a space alien!" he screamed, leaping off the log. He dashed for the cabin and burst into the kitchen.
