What is an author’s fundamental goal in writing an informational text?(1 point) Responses to compare and contrast different points of view to compare and contrast different points of view to convince readers to feel a certain way to convince readers to feel a certain way to entertain with funny anecdotes to entertain with funny anecdotes to provide readers with knowledge to provide readers with knowledge

to provide readers with knowledge

Use the passage to answer the question. In The Forgotten Forests, the author discusses acid rain's impact on forest soil at length, persuasively boosting the argument that its impact is a serious environmental concern. The statement is a claim made in a book review written by a student. Which evidence from the book best supports this argument? (1 point) Responses Trees need magnesium and calcium to thrive, and acid rain dissolves these minerals in forest soil. Trees need magnesium and calcium to thrive, and acid rain dissolves these minerals in forest soil. Without the nutrients they need, trees and other plants are unable to protect themselves from cold and disease. Without the nutrients they need, trees and other plants are unable to protect themselves from cold and disease. In industrial areas and other places affected by acid rain, dead and dying trees are the rule and not the exception. In industrial areas and other places affected by acid rain, dead and dying trees are the rule and not the exception. In order to stay healthy, trees must have rich and loamy soil that drains well and can hold water.

Trees need magnesium and calcium to thrive, and acid rain dissolves these minerals in forest soil.

"The Osage Indians Struck It Rich, Paid the Price" by Dwight Garner “Killers of the Flower Moon” builds to a cinematic court scene filled with outrages and recantations. White gets his man, a local cattleman and a figure of genuine evil. But it is among Grann’s larger points that these murders were hardly the work of one human. It took a village — a “culture of killing,” in his words — to eliminate this many people. The government estimated that 24 Osage members were murdered. As Grann pores over the evidence, however, he realizes the number was almost certainly higher, perhaps in the hundreds. He spends time with the descendants of some of those killed, and he pokes through old files and turns up new information. His own outrage, although kept at a simmer, is unmistakable. “While researching the murders,” he writes, “I often felt that I was chasing history even as it was slipping away.” The period photographs in “Killers of the Flower Moon” are exceptional in their impact; they bore into you. If the book has a heroine, it is an Osage woman named Mollie Burkhart, whose sisters and other family members are picked off one by one. The beautiful and implacable faces of Mollie and her brown-eyed sisters gaze, as if in accusation, across the ages.

Use the passage to answer the question. Which quotation from the passage contains evidence about the book’s research? (1 point) Responses “‘While researching the murders,’ he writes, ‘I often felt that I was chasing history even as it was slipping away.’” “‘While researching the murders,’ he writes, ‘I often felt that I was chasing history even as it was slipping away.’” “‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ builds to a cinematic court scene filled with outrages and recantations. “‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ builds to a cinematic court scene filled with outrages and recantations. “If the book has a heroine, it is an Osage woman named Mollie Burkhart, whose sisters and other family members are picked off one by one.” “If the book has a heroine, it is an Osage woman named Mollie Burkhart, whose sisters and other family members are picked off one by one.” “He spends time with the descendants of some of those killed, and he pokes through old files and turns up new information.”

“‘While researching the murders,’ he writes, ‘I often felt that I was chasing history even as it was slipping away.’”