The Wind Has a Job to Do 2.5

The Wind Has a Job to Do 2.5

I learned that the wind is important for more than flying kites or making our wind chime make music. Without the wind, our world wouldn’t have any people, food, or animals. Wind moves the heat from the sun all around the planet. Without the wind, about half of the earth would be too hot for any living thing. Most of the rest of the earth would be too cold. In fact, most of our country would be under ice.

Wind is useful to all living things. It brings moisture up from the oceans into the air. Then the wind blows the moisture around. The moisture falls as rain, dew, or snow and ice.

Many plants and trees depend on the wind. The wind helps them spread their seeds to new places. Wind also blows pollen around so trees, grass, and grains can ripen. Without the wind, farmers couldn’t grow corn or wheat. Bees help the wind spread pollen. Their job is to fly from blossom to blossom with pollen on their feet and wings.

You can see for yourself how the wind spreads seeds. The next time you see a yellow dandelion that has turned into a white puffball, blow it. Or, if you find a maple tree seed with wings that looks like a helicopter, throw it. You’ll see all of the seeds go flying and you will be helping the wind do its job.

I learned that the wind is important for more than flying kites or making our wind chime make music. Is this sentence from paragraph one a fact or an opinion?

What word or words in the sentence help you to decide?

From paragraph one, give two examples of how the wind makes it possible for us to live on earth.

What happens before moisture falls as rain dew, or snow and ice?

In what way are plants and trees dependent on the wind?

In what two ways is pollen spread from plant to plant?

What is it about the seeds in paragraph four that makes it possible for the wind to blow them around?

What word in paragraph four means the opposite of grab?