<p>Dozens of grasses
To get an impression of
narrator
church writings
sitting in the sun
reluctance
grandfather comparison voice
equal to
Missippi/Appalachian
Heavily Used
Incomplete
Chronological Order/Development
Rhetorically
experienced
deep roots
autumn
four to seven
contradictory-- seems bad but actually good
Humans intervene
categories Withal used</p>
<p>Ridge patterns, sand dunes, and the yellowness were all mentioned in it. It did mention a few grass types but not more than like 2.</p>
<p>Nooooo the cloudy blue waters was the answer dunno were your getting yellowness.</p>
<p>So what answer choice was the siberian root vs. other root?</p>
<p>Cloudy blue waters? I don’t seem to recall that.</p>
<p>It was there-- and the answers deep roots.</p>
<p>Arite, what letter answer choice was that? ^</p>
<p>it definitely mentioned dozens of grasses I believe the answer was</p>
<p>loess water</p>
<p>anyone with me?</p>
<p>I am with you. Okay so I think another answer was Cooper? and part of his plays?</p>
<p>@voberaptor When it talked about “I” it was the narrator.</p>
<p>i don’t remember cooper being an answer…wood was, i remember that</p>
<p>Yeah it was wood it was wood.</p>
<p>can anyone tell me what the questions sounded like for the one that had the answers “equal to”, “water” and “autumn” i don’t remember seeing autumn… but i was rushed on like the last 4 questions. I’m hopping i was not filling out the wrong bubbles</p>
<p>i remember equal to and autumn being answers…not water (i dont think so)</p>
<p>was autumn one of the answers for like the last 2 questions? i don’t know why i can’t recall it? the last question i answered was 4-7 years i think</p>
<p>IT’S A FINE DAY FOR A PRAIRIE FIRE. Wind is steady at 10 to 15 miles per hour from the southeast, and the humidity hovers around 50 percent. For early August in Iowa the weather is cool and won’t overheat the crew.</p>
<p>Kevin Pape, a ranger for Stone State Park, attired in a flame-resistant Nomex suit and broad-brimmed fire hat, exudes quiet confidence as he passes among the workers. He’s handing out aerial photographs marked with letters and boundary lines of the next unit to be burned, a 13-acre parcel of prairie just four miles from downtown Sioux City. Across Talbot Road, today’s firebreak, the last unit still smolders, blackened earth gently crackling, wisps of smoke still rising. </p>
<p>Pape and his crew are preserving prairie in the Loess Hills of Iowa by torching it. </p>
<p>These are some of Iowa’s last and most ecologically diverse prairies, and they’re disappearing like drops of water on a hot skillet. Of the vast prairie that once blanketed the Hawkeye State, less than one-tenth of one percent survives. Of that tiny remnant, more than half is here in the Loess Hills, a long band of steep peaks, some jutting up to 400 feet, hugging the Missouri River valley along the western edge of the state. The hills are Iowa’s secret treasure, a 650,000-acre miniature mountain range that punctuates the famous flatness of the Midwest with sharp slopes and cool, sheltering hollows. </p>
<p>I came here by air, and so did the hills. They were blown in, particle by particle, on the winds. The Loess Hills get their name from the dirt they’re made of. It’s a German word, Lss. It rhymes with “fuss” and means dust, literally “loose.” Loess is fine yellowish mineral stuff, rock pulverized by glaciers over the 150 millennia of the last ice age and carried south by rivers. When the rivers dried, they left tons of this silt-like powder to be picked up by winds and scattered across the heartland. </p>
<p>Under the rich topsoil of its green croplands, most of Iowa is covered in a 50-foot-deep blanket of loess. Only here, though, where the winds from the west met the Missouri’s eastern shore, was the loess dumped in great heaps. The only other landform like it is along the banks of China’s Yellow River, named for its loess-clouded waters. </p>
<p>Fragile Giants is what scientific historian Cornelia Mutel titled her 1989 book, the best natural history yet of the hills. Fragile indeed. Where the loess is exposed, you can break it off in chunks and crumble it to a powder that disappears almost before it hits the ground. Occasionally a farmer carves “fragile giants” into a field of corn, a message to airplane passengers that this is not just flyover country but has a name, an identity.</p>
<p>From the ground, the topography calls to mind the intricate, pleated patterns of sand dunes. Long, meandering ridges are like spines with rows of smaller ridges projecting out like ribs, and even smaller spur ridges projecting from these in turn. Natural terraces follow the hills’ contours because of the mineral soil’s peculiar inclination to compact into straight vertical walls. These “catsteps” unmistakable signatures of loess terrain create a complex network of ridges, a hiker’s dream of hilltop mazes with nonstop prairie vistas. </p>
<p>Most of Iowa’s prairie long ago fell victim to the plow or the pavement. But because the Loess Hills are often too steep for row crops, pockets of high-quality virgin prairie remain. Big bluestem, little bluestem, sideoats grama, prairie clovers, lead plant, and dozens of other grasses, sedges, and flowering plants mottle the hills. Once fodder for long-vanished herds of bison, elk, and pronghorn, they still offer a rich harvest to wild turkeys, pheasant, and bobwhites, and refuge for foxes, mink, and badgers.</p>
<p>Herons and ducks shelter in the creeks and ponds. By day, birds of prey wheel overhead, vultures and many breeds of hawks. By night, great horned and barred owls take over. The hills are also home to some animals more common in the far West. In places, the parching winds from the western plains and the intense heat of the afternoon sun create a desert-like environment for plains pocket mice, ornate box turtles, Great Plains skinks, and prairie rattlesnakes.</p>
<p>Cattle have overgrazed some areas. Developers mine for fill dirt. Road construction leaves exposed cuts prone to erosion. Affluent homeowners fleeing the sprawl of Omaha, Council Bluffs, and Sioux City set up ten-acre ranchettes, “landscaping” their rural getaways with invasive trees and fragmenting habitat with new roads. All this settlement brings perhaps the most powerful threat to the survival of the prairie: fire suppression. Without the occasional blaze, prairie quickly becomes overgrown with trees, which can’t hold the fragile loess soil the way prairie vegetation does.</p>
<p>When Lewis and Clark passed within a few miles of this spot 200 years ago, it was largely a treeless landscape. Back then, fire would scorch any given patch of prairie every four to seven years. In autumn, the dry plants could fuel towering flames and intense heat. In 1832, the painter George Catlin described one as a “Hell of fires.” These conflagrations could advance faster than a man on horseback could flee, but they were as vital to the survival of a prairie as water itself. Prairie plants evolved root systems up to 15 feet deep to survive the flames.</p>
<p>To bring fire back, Pape and his crew are part of a network of prescribed-burn fire-setters called the Stewardship Committee. Of the hills’ 650,000 acres, only about 18,000 a patchwork of state, county, and privately owned parklands are under any sort of conservation management. The committee does its best to burn those areas as regularly as nature once did. It’s a sort of latter-day ecological posse, a band of professionals trained in fire management that convenes whenever and wherever conditions are right to incinerate bad guys like overgrown sumac, dogwood, eastern red cedar, and the invasive Siberian elm.</p>
<p>what did the question sound like with the answer “equal to”?</p>
<p>Dozens of grasses -_- sshldgs</p>
<p>New York
- Reluctance
- Clinton=rich family
- Miss river/appalachina mt
- Compare costs of ship b/c importance
- Funded while contructued
6.<br>
Tattoos - I-narrator
- Play w/ kids at beach
- Grandfather = birds simile
- Speak calmly or sit at beach
- Tattoo love ocean
- Soothing sun
- Warrior tattoo incomplete
- Skin color impression of the ppl
9.<br>
Dictionaries - Need dictionaries
- Religious writing
- Wood
- Last one greatest pivotal
- Rhetorical
- Subject not abc order
- Categories wital used
8.<br>
Prairie Fire - Equal water
- Experienced park ranger
- Fire in autumn
- 4-7 years
- Cloudly water china
- Contradictory
- Humans intervene
- Deep roots for fire</p>
<p>fill out rest plz</p>
<p>basketball…on number 6 from the 3rd passage, what was the letter? Was it C(H) or D(J)?</p>