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Two Places in Highvale

Compare two mountain places and explain how people change the environment and protect soil, water, trees, and plants.

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: Social Studies
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students describe ways people change the environment in two mountain places.
Students identify actions that protect soil, water, trees, and plants.
Students compare protection plans for different places.

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Read the passage together or aloud. Ask students to point to details about each place before they answer the comparison and planning questions.

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GEO.2.4

Describe how people change the environment and ways they can protect natural resources.

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Two Places in Highvale

Compare how people change and care for mountain places.

Read and compare

Read about two places in Highvale. Then answer the questions.

Two Places in Highvale

Highvale is a mountain town beside a steep slope and a cold creek. Two places near town changed as people used them.

At Creekside Corner, workers cleared several trees and paved a parking area. The hard surface gave visitors room for cars, but rain could not soak through it. Water rushed toward the creek and carried loose soil from the edge. Later, town workers and neighbors removed some pavement, planted native grasses and shrubs, and made a shallow rain garden. After storms, plant roots held soil, and the garden slowed water before it reached the creek.

At Lookout Meadow, hikers wanted an easier path to a mountain view. Workers built a narrow trail and a small wooden platform. During busy weekends, some hikers stepped off the trail. Their footsteps flattened meadow plants and left bare soil. Volunteers put up a rope boundary, placed signs, and planted native flowers in bare spots. They also asked hikers to stay on the trail and carry litter out.

What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Parking areas are the most important places in Highvale.
B. Hikers should not visit mountain places.
C. People can change mountain places and use different ways to protect them.
D. Rain is the main reason people visit Highvale.

Match each action to how it helped a place.

Built a paved parking area
Made a rain garden with plants
Put up a rope boundary and signs
Asked hikers to carry litter out

A. Helped keep the meadow clean
B. Gave visitors room for cars
C. Slowed water and helped hold soil
D. Helped keep hikers on the trail

Circle the two changes that gave people more space or a route for visiting.

Built a parking areaBuilt a trail and wooden platformPlanted native grasses and shrubsPlanted flowers in bare spots

Word bank: soil · pavement · litter

At Creekside Corner, rain carried loose toward the creek.

Why did workers remove some pavement at Creekside Corner?

A. To make more room for cars
B. To give hikers a wooden platform
C. To make water rush faster toward the creek
D. To let rain soak in and reduce soil washing to the creek

Circle the two actions that protect natural resources.

Cleared several treesPlanted native grasses and shrubsPaved a parking areaAsked hikers to stay on the trail and carry litter out

Sort each plan.

Clear trees to make a wide parking lotPlant native shrubs beside a streamMark one path and ask visitors to stay on itCover a whole slope with pavement

May harm natural resources	Helps protect natural resources

Which sentence compares the two places correctly?

A. Both places were protected by paving more ground.
B. Both places changed for visitors, but their protection actions differed.
C. Creekside was used for hikers, and Lookout was used for cars.
D. Lookout Meadow had no changes because people left it alone.

Which detail is evidence that the rain garden helped protect the creek?

A. Visitors had room for cars.
B. After storms, plant roots held soil.
C. Workers built a wooden platform.
D. Hikers wanted an easier path.

Use the ideas

Think about what happened in Highvale. Use the passage to choose the best plan.

10.

A new picnic spot will be built near a mountain spring. Which plan best protects the place?

A. Build a narrow path around trees and plant native grass on bare soil.
B. Clear the trees, pave the area, and send rain toward the spring.
C. Let visitors choose paths across plants to reach the tables.
D. Cover the spring edge with loose soil so rain moves faster.

11.

If hikers keep stepping off the trail at Lookout Meadow, what is most likely to happen?

A. More trees will be planted beside Creekside Corner.
B. The wooden platform will become a parking area.
C. More meadow plants could be crushed and bare soil could wash away.
D. Rain will soak through the old parking lot.

12.

Which plan could protect natural resources in both places?

A. Add more pavement at the creek and more paths through the meadow.
B. Clear trees at the creek and remove plants from the meadow.
C. Build a wider road through both places for more visitors.
D. Use plants to hold soil and keep visitors on marked paths.

Explain your thinking

Write complete thoughts. Use details from the passage.

13.

Compare Creekside Corner and Lookout Meadow. Describe one way people changed each place and one way people protected each place.

14.

A town wants to build a new path near trees and a stream. Recommend two actions that would protect natural resources. Explain how each action would help.