The Silent Language of Trees
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For centuries, people pictured a forest as a crowd of strangers: every tree fighting its neighbors for light and water. It was a tidy picture. It was also wrong. Under the ground, the trees are connected.
1. What did people once believe about a forest?
- ATrees helped each other
- BEach tree fought its neighbors
- CTrees did not need light
Ver la respuesta
B. Each tree fought its neighbors
People pictured every tree fighting its neighbors for light and water.
La prueba en el texto: every tree fighting its neighbors for light and water
Thin threads of fungi wrap around the roots of neighboring trees and join them into one web. The fungus takes sugar from each tree. In return, it brings the tree water and minerals that its roots could never reach alone.
2. True or false? The fungus gives sugar to the trees.
- ATrue (Verdadero)
- BFalse (Falso)
Ver la respuesta
B. False (Falso)
The fungus takes sugar from each tree and gives back water and minerals.
La prueba en el texto: The fungus takes sugar from each tree
Ecologist Suzanne Simard found that carbon travels along this web. It moves from trees that have plenty to trees growing in the shade. A tall tree can feed a seedling that gets almost no sun.
3. Where does the carbon go?
- ATo the tallest trees
- BInto the air
- CTo trees growing in the shade
Ver la respuesta
C. To trees growing in the shade
It moves from trees with plenty to trees growing in the shade.
La prueba en el texto: to trees growing in the shade
None of this makes a forest kind. Some plants take from the web and give nothing back. Others push rivals away with chemicals. A forest is less like a family and more like a market: busy, useful, and not always fair.
4. Why is a forest like a market?
- AIt is busy, useful and not always fair
- BTrees buy and sell food
- CIt is always kind to everyone
Ver la respuesta
A. It is busy, useful and not always fair
Like a market, a forest is busy, useful, and not always fair.
La prueba en el texto: busy, useful, and not always fair
Vocabulario en español
| Inglés | Español | Significado en inglés |
|---|---|---|
| fungi | hongos | living things like mushrooms, mostly hidden in the soil |
| minerals | minerales | natural things, like iron or salt, that plants need to grow |
| seedling | plántula | a very young plant, just grown from a seed |
| rivals | rivales | others who want the same thing you want |
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