The North Carolina parakeet, the northernmost of the world's parrots, is now extinct, although at one time this parakeet ranged as far north as New York and as far west as the Dakotas. Their extinction was brought about by hunters who shot them for their beautiful feathers, for sheer sport, and to stop them from destroying fruit. The farther you go in school, the more reading assignments you have. You can improve your ability to read fast, but that is not enough. You must also try to improve your comprehension.
Moulds can be very annoying when they develop on our food or on our clothes.
One useful thing they accomplish, though, is to cause dead plants and animals to decay. The people of the Netherlands, popularly called Hollanders or Dutch, have increased the land area of their country for cultivation by building dikes around a lake, marsh, or sea area to keep it from flooding. The water within the enclosed area is drained off into canals. The newly drained, dike-protected land is called a polder. Most of the land in the western part of the Netherlands is reclaimed land.