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LESSON: LETTING SWIFT RIVER
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Lesson Summary
Sally Jane
began her life in one of the small towns along the Swift River.
Because the city of Boston needed more water, the small rural towns
were removed, the river was damned, and the Quabbin Reservoir was
formed.
Concept: Trade-offs
Definition: When making a choice,
trade-offs means
getting a little less of one thing in order to get a little more of
another.
Comprehension Questions
Why did
the people of the small towns along the Swift River have to move?
The towns were removed in order to create a reservoir because the
people of Boston did not have enough water.
What
were the trade-offs the people in the town faced?
The people
earned money for a better life somewhere else, but they gave up their
homes, their friends, and their town.
What
natural resource was scarce in the city but not in Sally Jane's
town?
Water
What
other natural resources were collected as the land was prepared to
build the reservoir?
All the trees were cut down and hauled
away.
What
natural resource could not be used after the reservoir was
completed?
The fertile soil of the valley to grow
plants.
Identify the trade-off of natural
resources.
Getting more fresh water and losing fertile
land.
Other
Concepts: Natural
Resources, Scarcity, Capital
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