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Print Earth Reading Comprehension with Sixth Grade Work

Print Earth Reading Comprehension


Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 6 to 8
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	6.33

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		standing, radiation, universe, provides, atmosphere, theory, provided, disagreement, ancient, prove, astronomer, scientist, evidence, meantime, produce, position
	content words:		Nicolaus Copernicus, Heavenly Spheres, In Italy, In Germany, Johannes Kepler

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Earth By Sharon Fabian

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¹     Even the most ancient people knew about planet Earth. It was what they slept on every night. The trees that they took shelter under grew from the Earth's soil. Earth provided plants for their food and animals for them to hunt.
 
²     There is one thing that these ancient people didn't know about Earth; they didn't know that Earth is a planet. If someone had told them that Earth floats in space and revolves around the sun, they probably would have just looked at that person like he was crazy.
 
³     Common sense told people that Earth was at the center of the universe and that it was standing still. After all, no one could see it move, and no one could feel it move. From all appearances, Earth stood still while other objects in the sky moved around it. Everyone could see that the sun rose in the east every morning and set in the west every evening. The moon traveled across the sky, too. Even some stars changed their position in the sky.

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Solar System

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Science

Science

Careers in Science         Caring for Earth         Clouds         Dinosaurs         Earth's Land         Earth         Earthquakes         Electricity         Energy         Erosion         Food Pyramid         Food Webs and Food Chain         Forces and Motion         Fossils         Health and Nutrition         How Things Work         Landforms         Life Science         Light         Magnets         Matter

Moon         Natural Disasters         Photosynthesis         Plant and Animal Cells         Plants         Rocks and Minerals         Science Process Skills         Scientific Notation         Seasons         Simple Machines         Soil         Solar System         Sound         Space and Stars         Sun         Tsunami         Volcanoes         Water Cycle         Water         Weather

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