Walk the Plank! W.M. Akers
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1 Walk the Plank! W.M. Akers Walk the Plank! Walking the plank is not a fun thing to do. Here s how it works. A pirate sticks a long piece of wood off the side of his ship and makes you stand at one end. He puts his sword at your back and bellows, Walllllk the plank! You walk across the plank toward the water. When you run out of plank, you fall in the water. Probably there are sharks down there. The ship sails away, and that s the end of you. The thing is, pirates never really made anyone walk the plank. This may surprise you, since it s in a lot of movies and TV shows. It s a nasty thing to do, and pirates were pretty nasty, so it seems like something they would do. But in fact walking the plank was imagined by Robert Louis Stevenson, a 19th century novelist, whose most famous book is Treasure Island. A fictional pirate like Long John Silver might make you walk the plank, but a real-life pirate never would. That is what was going through Tommy s mind as he stood on the end of the plank staring out at his doom. His best friend Jack stood behind him. Tommy felt the point of Jack s wooden sword digging into his back. I said, walllllk the plank! shouted Jack. The thing is, said Tommy, pirates never really made people walk the plank. That was invented by Robert Louis Stevenson, who I m a pirate! Do you think I care about books? They were standing on the edge of Jack s tree house, which had a lot of uses. Sometimes it was a submarine. Sometimes it was a spaceship. Sometimes it was just a tree house. That afternoon, it was serving as a pirate ship. They had been pirates all afternoon, and everything was going fine until Tommy made the mistake of criticizing his captain. Jack was always the captain, since this was his tree house. And Captain Jack s number one rule was that the crew must never question his orders. So when the Captain ordered his first mate to hand over three chocolate chip cookies, Tommy was supposed to do so without complaint. But chocolate chip cookies were his favorite. He d suffered through a whole boring bologna sandwich to get to them, and now that he was finished, Jack wanted to take them away. Tommy didn t care who was the captain. He stuffed all three cookies into his mouth and chewed as fast as he could. And so Captain Jack sentenced him to walk the plank. I m getting tired of waiting, Mister Tommy. Walllllk the plank! Tommy looked at the ground. They had jumped out of the tree house tons of times, but it was easy when you had a running start. It would be harder to just walk into thin air. He could see why Robert Louis Stevenson thought this would be a scary thing. There was no way out. Unless what would a pirate do? Tommy didn t hesitate. He spun around as fast as he could and kicked his leg into the air. Jack s sword went flying, and before Jack knew what had happened, Tommy leapt onto the sword. He popped up and pointed it at Jack s back. Yaaargh! What are you doing? whined Jack. This is a mutiny! I m the captain now. And I say that you have to walllllk the plank! 2015 ReadWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.
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12 Wonderful World of Wasps Wonderful World of Wasps This text is provided courtesy of OLogy, the American Museum of Natural History s website for kids. Wasps may not be as big as lions or bears, but these insects are among the most successful predators on Earth! Different wasp species have different ways of preying on other animals. Some wasps, called parasitoids, lay their eggs in the bodies of live insects (hosts). As a larva grows, it feeds on the host from the inside out! But humans have little to fear. Wasps are uninterested in people unless their nests are threatened. In fact, wasps prey on many of the insect pests that destroy crops, so they are ultimately beneficial to humans. With more than 100,000 species, there's a lot to learn about wasps. They fall into two main categories: Social wasps build nests and live in colonies of up to thousands of individuals. Hornets and yellow jackets are social wasps. Solitary wasps don't live in large nests with other wasps, but live alone. Some build small nests in the ground or in natural crevices. Others get their nests from other insects. Parasitoid wasps lay their eggs in the bodies of "host" insects, while cleptoparasitic wasps steal insect nests to use as their own. Illustration Credit: Carly Tribull
13 What s the Big Idea about Marine Biology? Life in the Ocean What s the Big Idea about Marine Biology? Life in the Ocean This text is provided courtesy of OLogy, the American Museum of Natural History s website for kids. It All Started in the Ocean Our planet is made up of five great oceans the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Indian, the Arctic, and the Southern. They're all linked together, creating a huge body of salt water called the World Ocean that surrounds the continents and islands and covers about two thirds of the earth's surface. Illustration Credit: Eric Hamilton (top); Sean Murtha (bottom) Scientists know from studying tiny fossils that life on Earth probably started in the oceans nearly 4 billion years ago. For most of Earth's history, life stayed and thrived in the oceans. About 500 million years ago, some living things, like our ancestors, moved out of the water and on to land, but most life stayed in the oceans. Underwater Wonders Life in the oceans is much more diverse than life on land; oceans have many more different kinds of organisms. They are full of the biggest, smallest, fastest, weirdest, coolest, and spookiest stuff: whales, phytoplankton, jellyfish, sponges, sea dragons, marlins, giant squid, hatchet fish, seaweed, starfish, sea cucumbers, manatees, coelacanths, and stingrays, to name a few. Illustration Credit: Sean Murtha (top); Eric Hamilton (bottom) Just How Do You Live in Water? Sea organisms need special adaptations for life in water because: Photo Credit: courtesy of California Academy of Sciences, Gerald and Buff Corsi (top); courtesy of AMNH Department of Library Services (bottom) There's a lot less dissolved oxygen in water. Food gets scarce once you leave the continental shelves. As you go deeper, pressure increases. Water is denser and more viscous than air. It supports weight better, but it's more difficult to move through because it's stiffer. As light travels downwards in water, different colors (wavelengths) are absorbed at different depths. Below 2,000 feet, the ocean is completely dark.
14 What s the Big Idea about Marine Biology? Creatures and Ecosystems in the Ocean What s the Big Idea about Marine Biology? Creatures and Ecosystems in the Ocean This text is provided courtesy of OLogy, the American Museum of Natural History s website for kids. There Are So Many Ways to Live in the Sea Forests and prairies are examples of ecosystems on land. An ecosystem is a community of living things. Members survive by interacting with each other and with their environment. At first glance, the ocean seems like one big ecosystem. Look below the surface and you'll see that there are lots of different kinds of ocean ecosystems more than on land all teeming with life. Ocean ecosystems depend on each other for survival. Ocean Layer Cake In the ocean you see a much greater variety of creatures if you move up or down than by moving from side to side. The sunlit zone, near the top, is rich in life. Algae bloom here, providing huge quantities of food for the animals that live here, and for the billions of deep sea animals that rise to feed here every night and then return to the deep at dawn. This vertical migration is the largest mass movement of life on Earth. And it happens every night! Photo Credit: courtesy of NOAA, Heather Dine (top); courtesy of Florida Department of Environmental Protection (bottom) Illustration Credit: Eric Hamilton (top); courtesy of Debbie Steinberg, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (bottom) As you dive deeper, to the colder, darker twilight zone, there's less life. Zooplankton and sea snow provide most of the food for the animals that live here. Way down deep is the icy cold dark zone, where signs of life are rare. The pressure of the water would crush a human. It's pitch black here because no sunlight penetrates. The only light is provided by bioluminescence glowing lights on animals' bodies. 1
15 What s the Big Idea about Marine Biology? Creatures and Ecosystems in the Ocean Life on the Edge Ecosystems such as coral reefs, mangroves, kelp forests, and estuaries are found along the continental shelves. Eighty percent of all sea life lives here. Why? Because shallow water and closeness to land provide the conditions needed to support large quantities of life: food, light, and shelter. Algae, like kelp and phytoplankton, contain green, brown, and red pigments that enable them to convert the sun's energy into food. Credit: Eric Hamilton (top illustration); courtesy of Ian Skipworth (bottom photo) 2
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30 Spinning Thunderstorms Spinning Thunderstorms This article is provided courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History. On a spring night in 2007, disaster struck a small town in Kansas called Greensburg. Shortly before 10 p.m., a siren went off. A mile wide tornado was approaching Greensburg. And it wasn t just any tornado. It was a category EF5, the most powerful kind there is. Its winds were estimated to be more than 200 miles per hour. In less than ten minutes, the town was destroyed and ten people lost their lives. When the fury had passed, people clambered through the rubble. Cars and trucks had been thrown about. Homes were crushed, or simply ripped from the ground. I m in downtown Greensburg. There s really nothing left, said one resident. Credit: FEMA Photo by Michael Raphael The tornado destroyed much of the town. Many residents needed temporary housing. How do tornadoes form? A tornado is a swirling, funnel shaped column of wind that gets its start from a thunderstorm. Thunderclouds form when warm, wet air collides with cool, dry air. Then, strong winds form into a wide tube of spinning air. When the tube touches the ground, it becomes a tornado.
31 Spinning Thunderstorms Credit: NOAA A tornado is a swirling, funnel shaped column of wind. It stretches from a thunderstorm cloud down to the ground. A tornado gets its start when strong winds at high altitudes set a thunderstorm s winds rotating. Credit: The Field Museum The 200 plus mph winds of a tornado can bend a stop sign. Kansans are used to tornadoes. The people of Greensburg live smack in the middle of Tornado Alley, an area that spans eight states in the Central United states. This region is a perfect thunderstorm factory. It has just what storms need to get started: cool, dry air from the Arctic mixing with warm, humid air from the Gulf of Mexico. Above the flat Great Plains, far from mountains and coastal weather, thunderstorms can form undisturbed. These conditions spawn more than 600 tornadoes, on average, in Tornado Alley every year. Credit: The Field Museum More than 75% of all tornadoes in the world take place in Tornado Alley.
32 Spinning Thunderstorms How do scientists predict dangerous storms? Meteorologists are scientists who study and forecast weather. They use a technology called radar to track storms. Weather radar works by detecting the precipitation (rain, snow, or hail) in approaching storms. The radar unit sends out a radio wave towards the storm. The radio wave bounces off the raindrops, hail or snow that is in the storm, and then returns to the radar unit. The amount of time it takes for the wave to return tells meteorologists how far away the storm is. Most radar units send out about 1,000 radio waves per second. This gives them detailed, up to the minute information about the storm. Using radar, forecasters can track the formation and path of severe storms like tornadoes. When a tornado takes shape, its winds blow raindrops in a circular pattern. When scientists see that pattern on a radar screen, they know that a tornado is developing. Although tornadoes have fast swirling winds, tornadoes themselves move relatively slowly across the land (18 30 miles per hour). So scientists can make reasonable forecasts about where they are headed. A system of tornado watches and warnings are used to alert the public to danger. A tornado watch means thunderstorm conditions exist that could spawn tornadoes. A warning means a tornado has touched down and been spotted. Credit: NOAA Doppler radar map shows the tornado shortly before it leveled most of Greensburg, Kansas. This system saved many lives in Greensburg. After the tornado sirens shrieked, people had 20 minutes to escape to their basements and storm shelters before the tornado destroyed their town.
33 Questions: Spinning Thunderstorms Name: Date: 1. What happened to the town of Greensburg in 2007? A It was destroyed by a fire. B It was destroyed by a tornado. C It was destroyed by a hurricane. D It was destroyed by an earthquake. 2. What does this article explain? A how scientists use radar to track storms B how the town of Greensburg was rebuilt C how the system of tornado watches and warnings developed D how cool, dry air moves from the Arctic to the middle of the United States 3. Read this sentence from the article: Kansans are used to tornadoes. What evidence in the article supports this statement? A The tornado that destroyed Greensburg was a mile wide and had winds that were moving faster than 200 miles an hour. B A tornado came through Greensburg and destroyed the town 20 minutes after tornado sirens went off. C Kansans live in an area of the United States where a lot of tornadoes happen. D Tornado Alley has cool, dry air from the Arctic that mixes with warm, wet air from the Gulf of Mexico. 4. What might be a reason why scientists track tornadoes? A to encourage more people to use radar technology B to warn people against living in Tornado Alley C to lower the number of tornadoes that happen every year D to gather information that is used to warn people that a tornado is approaching 5. What is the main idea of this article? A Tornadoes are dangerous spinning storms, but storm tracking and a system of watches and warnings can lessen their danger. B Tornado Alley is an area in the middle of the United States where cool, dry air mixes with warm, wet air. C The tornado that struck Greensburg threw cars and trucks through the air, pulled homes out of the ground, and killed 10 people. D Radio waves give scientists information about approaching storms by traveling from a radar unit toward a storm and then returning to the radar unit ReadWorks, Inc. All rights reserved. 1
34 Questions: Spinning Thunderstorms 6. Why might the author use headings such as How do tornadoes form? and How do scientists predict dangerous storms? A to make readers think more deeply about the effects of tornadoes B to suggest that there is still a lot to be learned about tornadoes C to provide information about the pictures included with the article D to help organize the information in the article 7. Select the word that best completes the sentence. A tornado warning saved many lives in Greensburg the town itself was destroyed. A after B although C because D for example 8. What is a tornado? ReadWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.
35 Questions: Spinning Thunderstorms 9. Explain how radar could be used to track a tornado. Support your answer with evidence from the article. 10. Could using radar to track a tornado help save lives? Explain why or why not, using evidence from the article ReadWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.
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42 Adventure on a Hot Air Balloon Adventure on a Hot Air Balloon The wind is starting to blow stronger, and when you re riding in a basket under a hot air balloon, just 400 feet above ground, that s not necessarily a good thing. Keith Rodriguez looks to the horizon and squints. He had planned to take off from Scioto Downs, a horse racetrack south of Columbus, Ohio, fly a few miles north, and land his balloon in a barren cornfield next to his pickup truck. Then the wind changed. Instead of a light breeze from the south, now Rodriguez s bright red balloon is getting hit by stronger, colder winds headed west. He has plenty of propane fuel in his tank he probably could ride the wind halfway to Pennsylvania. But that would be dangerous. Rodriguez s choice of landing sites just became very limited. As the balloon switches direction and floats east, everything below becomes a wide carpet of suburban sprawl big-box stores, major highways, and strip malls. Beyond the stores lie forests. The only factor in Rodriguez s favor is that it s early, just after 7 a.m. The highways are filling up with people driving to work, but otherwise the morning is quiet and still. Oh boy, Rodriguez thinks. If I don t land, like now, this could get bad. The balloon has no propeller or engine, so Rodriguez can t change direction on his own he s entirely dependent on the wind. The only thing he controls is altitude. He does this by changing the properties of two invisible gases: air and propane. Sitting on the floor of the wicker gondola are three tanks of propane, compressed to its liquid form. The tanks are connected via black rubber hoses to two burners overhead. Each burner is nearly as big as Rodriguez s head. Rodriguez turns a knob on one side of the burners. This releases propane from a tank into the heating coil, where it is ignited by a pilot light. This heats the propane from a liquid into a gas. The gas catches fire, and flames leap two feet high into the balloon. The balloon rises. Rodriguez has a plan in mind. The flame heats the air inside the nylon balloon. This works on a simple principle: hot air is lighter than cold air. One cubic foot of air 2013 ReadWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.
43 Adventure on a Hot Air Balloon weighs about an ounce. If you heat that air by 100 degrees, its weight drops by about 7 grams. So every foot of heated air inside Rodriguez s balloon can lift about 7 grams. Just by himself, Rodriguez weighs 170 pounds, which equals 77,110 grams. That means he needs about 11,015 cubic feet of hot air just to raise his own body off the ground. This is why hot air balloons are so big they must trap tremendous amounts of heated air. Rodriguez s balloon is a common size, trapping about 100,000 square feet of air. The balloon is 90 feet tall and 65 feet wide. As Rodriguez gives his short burst of flame, the air inside swirls in complicated, invisible patterns. Little of it escapes out the hole in the bottom instead, it cools off gradually by coming into contact with the surrounding air outside the balloon s thin nylon wall. As this happens, the balloon gradually sinks. To drop altitude more quickly, Rodriguez can pull a cord attached to a parachute valve at the very top of the balloon. Since the hottest air sits at the top, this releases the balloon s most buoyant air and increases the speed of descent. Rodriguez gives the cord a short pull, and the gondola drops. I don t have an altimeter, and I can t really see anything happening inside the balloon, Rodriguez thinks. I have to pilot by feel. Pushed by the wind, the balloon is flying quickly now. It s floating over the back wall of a Wal-Mart when Rodriguez grabs hold of the parachute valve cord and gives it a long, hard tug. The balloon drops. Quickly. The hot air balloon is sinking, but still flying forward. It looks as though it s about to slam into the edge of Wal-Mart s roof but it sails over it, with only about 15 feet to spare. Still, Rodriguez does not let go of the cord. He drops and drops, right between the light poles of the nearly empty parking lot. Just a few feet above the ground, Rodriguez releases the parachute cord, turns the knob above his head and fires both burners. The steep descent slows. The gondola touches lightly against the asphalt, and then drags to a stop. There are only two people in the parking lot, standing near the entrance to the store. They look toward the balloon, their eyes and mouths open wide in shock. That was a little closer than I expected, Rodriguez says to himself, laughing. I really needed to land quick ReadWorks, Inc. All rights reserved.
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