A Bee Mystery

Recent surveys around the world have found some very sad and troubling news. Bees are not doing well. According to Time: Science & Space, "an estimated ten million beehives ... have been lost since 2006." What's worse, scientists are not sure why. Most beekeepers will tell you that bees tend to die in large numbers every spring. This is normal and necessary to keep a hive of bees healthy. But when the deaths add up to more than half the bees in an entire country, that is something altogether different and dire. Scientists have called this "colony-collapse disorder" or CCD. This name describes the effect, though, and not the cause of the die-out. Scientists simply do not know what is killing the bees.

Many things make it hard for bees. Varroa mites move into a colony and weaken it. Further, these mites carry viruses that attack those that survive. In addition, a new bacterium was recently discovered that attacks bees intestinally and kills them. Beekeepers go to great lengths to protect bees from these invaders, and for many years have been able to control them. All these attackers and the methods used to combat them do stress the bees, however.

Many feel the problem is not some new threat, but a decline in the habitat available to bees. Development of grasslands once home to wild flowers and food for bees has been universal. Pavement makes it easy to drive, but it replaces wild grasses and other food sources for bees. Perhaps, long before the mites and parasites moved in, humans took away enough of the bees' habitat to weaken their health. We plowed under a varied habitat and planted—in many cases—a single plant like beets. Then we sprayed all kinds of chemicals on the beets to keep other bugs away and in doing so also harmed bees. Now, to treat all the mites and other invaders, bee keepers use additional chemicals to kill the invaders. These chemicals also shorten the life of the bees. Have the use of chemicals, loss of habitat, and invading parasites made life impossible for bees? Experts continue to argue various theories, but few have any answers.

Colony collapse disorder is perhaps one of the most mysterious problems modern science has tried to solve. Whether the problem is environmental or an unknown disease, we will all feel the effects if bees continue to decline. Bees affect almost every aspect of the human food chain. From the fruits, vegetables, and grains we eat, to the grasses and grains we feed our livestock, we depend on bees to keep us healthy. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, bees account for 15 billion dollars in crops. Honey is a treasure for sure, but the real gold is in the strawberries, apples, peaches, and green beans we eat and need to stay healthy ourselves. All told, the outlook for bees is not good. The outlook for humans may not "bee" so good either.

Based on the text, which of the following best summarizes why humans should care about bees?

They support the production of a wide range of important crops.
They efficiently make honey, which everyone loves and needs.
They have many weaknesses because of chemicals.
They give scientists interesting puzzles to solve.

Answer:

They support the production of a wide range of important crops.

Explanation:

If not for bees and other pollinators, the world would die out. Pollinators are some of the only things keeping crops and plants alive. So, we should care about them due to this.

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* mouth lining
* liver tissue
* heart tissue
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Which of the following sentences demonstrates correct pronoun-antecedent agreement?
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The German club was selling chocolates to raise money for me plane tickets to Berlin in the summer.
Because the bus taking they broke down, the basketball team almost missed your championship game.
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Oc. If we had been any later, we wouldn't have been able to see the contestants take his places.
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The Molitov family was nice enough to let us use their summer house by the beach for our vacation.
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Which sentence contains a hyperbole?
A. She was as tall as the Washington monument.
B. The coach descended upon the losing team and sank his claws into the game statistics. *My answer*
C. The book struck a spark with the reader.
D. I can't make heads or tails out of the directions.
If someone already asked this before, please forgive me, I haven't seen yours if you did.

Read the passage.
It is difficult to babysit my cousin Sheila. She stays up until all hours of the night. She wails until I check on her. She wails because she wants
attention. She never actually needs anything when she stays up late crying. Even though sheila can frustrate me sometimes, I still always love her. I
try to remember what it was like when I was younger, and as I recall, I never wanted to go to bed either.
Which revision to the underlined sentences has the most diverse use of sentence clauses to create variety?
1. It is difficult to babysit my cousin Sheila, who stays up until all hours of the night. She wails until I check on her. She wails because
she wants attention. She never actually needs anything when she stays up late crying.
2. It is difficult to babysit my cousin Sheila. She wails until I check on her and always wants to stay up until all hours of the night. She
wails for attention. She never actually needs anything when she stays up late crying.
3. It is difficult to babysit my cousin Shelia. She stays up until all hours of the night and wails until I check on her. She never needs
anything. She stays up late crying for attention.
O 4. It is difficult to babysit my cousin Sheila, who wants to stay up until all hours of the night. She wails until I come in and check on her.
Although she never needs anything when she stays up late crying, she wails for attention.

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• A written biography
• The poster “A Tip from a Former Smoker”
• The video “I Live in Constant Fear”
For this assignment, write three paragraphs explaining how each of these three mediums conveys its message. Compare and contrast the media pieces, citing specific examples from each to support your ideas. Consider sound, video, images, video/camera angles, lighting, text, as well as verbal and nonverbal messages in each piece of media.
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EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY

What is the author's likely purpose for including Adam's confusion about who Cain is?

A. To make the story more mysterious and suspenseful

B. To suggest that Adam is not at all intelligent

C. To further add humor to the story through dramatic irony

D. To imply that Adam is in denial about being the only male human alive

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A set of books sits on a shelf at a store. This line plot shows the thickness of each book. Jessica buys one of the second thinnest books on the shelf. Jada buys the second thickest book on the shelf. How much thicker is Jada's book than Jessica's book? Enter your answer in the box as a mixed number in simplest form.

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Read the excerpt from "American Indian Civil Rights.”

One of the most sweeping blows to the American Indian community occurred in 1830 when President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act. As a result, the government negotiated with tribes to move them to land west of the Mississippi River. The government then acquired their previously inhabited land. Some tribes reluctantly went along with the act.

Which phrase from the excerpt uses a strong emotional connotation to help the author emphasize the tragedy that the American Indians suffered?

sweeping blows
community occurred
government negotiated
reluctantly went

How does paragraph 18 contribute to the development of the theme?
1.It shows how Minerva turned Arachne into a spider.
2.It shows that Arachne was ashamed of her actions.
3.It shows how Arachne tried to run away from her problems.
4.It shows that Minerva forgave Arachne for her misdeeds.

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- for each of these details below, please tell me what type of figurative language it is and what it actually means

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1. Chimneys are bent legs bouncing on fours below.

2. The arched stone bridge is an eye, with underlie in the water.

3. Where birds coast belly-up in the glass bowl of a hill.

4. Water-window splinter, tree-limbs tangle, the bride folds like a fan

Who Was To Blame For The Deaths Of Romeo And Juliet? 500 Word ESSAY!

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What 3 words come to mind when you think of the word “reliable”?

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8. King declares that we need a revolution of values: "our loyalties must become ecumenical rather
than sectional" (lines 465-466). By this, he means that

A. we must develop a concern for humankind that moves beyond loyalties to tribe, race, class, and nation.

B. people's values have deteriorated to the point that their only concem is for material goods.

C. only by engaging in anticommunist activities will be able to protect our materialistic values

D. Western nations must suppress the revolutionary spirit wherever it arises around the world.

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1. What is the definition of an "internal" conflict?
À a hero in a story
B. a struggle between a character and another in a story
C. an issue with culture and traditions
D. an issue a character faces with himself
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Which excerpt from Blanca Flor reflects the use of a motif commonly used in folktales?

“How did you find this place? You must leave right away. The owner of this place is gone, but he will return soon. He leaves to do his work in the world, but he will return unexpectedly.”

"You wanted work, fortune-seeker. Well, this is your job. Have it finished by morning or your fate will be the same as all the others who tried to save poor Blanca Flor."

"Late that night, as Juanito waited for her, Blanca Flor packed her belongings into a bag. Before she left the house, she went to the fireplace and spat three times into it."

"Don Ricardo knew that Blanca Flor was gone, and that she had run away with Juanito. He saddled his horse and galloped up the path to catch them before they escaped from his land."

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