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English, 13.08.2020 07:01 joseflores10205

65 POINTS & BRAINLEIST IF U GET ALL OF THESE RIGHT OR 4/6 RIGHT HELP PLS Read the passage.
The Neolithic Revolution

Key Questions :
Why did some early peoples make the transition from hunter-gatherers to pastoral and agricultural societies?
What kinds of changes occurred as people settled in one place to farm?

QUESTION:
How do the Key Questions help the author develop the ideas in this passage?

-They provide supporting evidence.
-They make the tone more objective.
-They preview the passage topics.
-They introduce important words.

QUESTION 2

How does the structure of this passage help the author explain the agricultural revolution in the Neolithic period?

-It includes specific causes and effects that explain how agriculture originated and evolved.
- It presents conflicting arguments that present different reasons as to why agriculture originated.
- It focuses on the problems that existed at the beginning of the New Stone Age to show that agriculture solved them.
-It compares the origin of agriculture to the first use of fire to support the idea that agriculture was more important.

QUESTION 3

How does the structure of this passage help the author explain the agricultural revolution in the Neolithic period?

- It includes specific causes and effects that explain how agriculture originated and evolved.
-It presents conflicting arguments that present different reasons as to why agriculture originated.
-It focuses on the problems that existed at the beginning of the New Stone Age to show that agriculture solved them.
- It compares the origin of agriculture to the first use of fire to support the idea that agriculture was more important.

QUESTION 4:
Read these sentences from Paragraph 10 of the passage
For example, some farmers learned that fire could help them grow more grain. They cleared land by cutting trees, bushes, and grass, and then burning them. The remaining ashes left the soil rich in nutrients.

This kind of farming is called slash-and-burn agriculture, and it helped early people maintain fertile soil. What does slash-and-burn agriculture mean?

-a method of chopping down trees and brush and burning them to create rich soil a technique of burning dried brush to prevent wildfires the process of setting fire to trees and brush to clear the land the practice of leaving a plot of land empty so the soil's nutrients regenerate

QUESTION 5:
Read these sentences from Paragraph 5 of the passage. Groups in some parts of the world made innovations so dramatic that historians call it the Neolithic Revolution. The Neolithic Revolution is also referred to as the agricultural revolution. It marked a great shift, as humans turned from hunting and gathering to farming—from food getting to food producing. How does the phrase "agricultural revolution" affect the passage? It indicates how farmers have always fought to protect their land and animals from being destroyed by hunters. It implies that the passage is intended for people with an interest in the early development of food production. It shows readers the frustration that the farmers felt using outdated farming methods. It makes readers aware of the massive changes that occurred in how people found new sources of food. QUESTION 6: Why does the author begin the passage with two key questions? to introduce readers to what they will learn about the beginnings of agricultural societies to explain the author's opinion on how agriculture came about and give examples of farming techniques to describe how hunter-gatherers survived during the prehistory period of the Old Stone Age to inform readers about the struggles early peoples experienced during the transition to the Neolithic period

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