question: The Ohio River, which streams westward from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River in the United States. At the confluence, the Ohio is considerably bigger than the Mississippi (Ohio at Cairo: 281,500cuft/s (7,960m/s); Mississippi at Thebes: 208,200cuft/s (5,897m/s)) and, thus, is hydrologically the main stream of the whole river system.

The river flows through or along the border of six states, and its drainage basin includes parts of 15states. Through its largest tributary, the Tennessee River, the basin includes many of the states of the southeastern U.S. It is the source of drinking water for three million people.

It is named in Iroquoian or , "GoodRiver" or and "Spelewathiipi". The river had great significance in the history of the Native Americans, as numerous civilizations formed along its valley. For thousands of years, Native Americans used the river as a major transportation and trading route. Its waters connected communities. In the five centuries before European conquest, the Mississippian culture built numerous regional chiefdoms and major earthwork mounds in the Ohio Valley, such as Angel Mounds near Evansville, Indiana, as well as in the Mississippi Valley and the Southeast. The Osage, Omaha, Ponca and Kaw lived in the Ohio Valley, but under pressure from the Iroquois to the northeast, migrated west of the Mississippi River to Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma in the 17th century.
1. How many state doe the Ohio River go through or by?
2. How many are included in it's drainage basin?
3. How many people use it for drinking water?
4. What is one of its tributaries?
5. Where does that rank in size among all its tributaries?
6. What river is the Ohio River a tributary of?
7. How is that measured?
8. Which way does it flow?
9. Beginning where?
10. Where is that?
11. Where does it end up?
12. Is that that in Egypt?
13. Where?
14. For what group is the river a big part of history?
15. What did they make along it?
16. What did it connect?
17. Did they use it for anything?
18. For what?
19. Anything else?
20. What?
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answer: 1. six
2. 15
3. three million
4. Tennessee River
5. The largest
6. Mississippi
7. cuft/s
8. westward
9. Pittsburgh
10. Pennsylvania
11. Cairo
12. No
13. Illinois
14. Native Americans,
15. civilizations
16. communities
17. yes
18. transportation
19. yes
20. trading

question: Bill dug a small hole and placed the seed inside. Then, he covered up the hole with dirt, and poured some water on it. It was such a small seed, and it was hard to believe that it would turn into a giant pumpkin.

Every day, Bill went out to the garden to check on the seed. Some days, if the ground was dry, he poured more water on it. After a few days, a tiny green plant started coming out of the ground. Bill kept checking every day, and the plant kept getting bigger and bigger.

Soon, there were tiny leaves on the plant. As the summer went on, the whole plant kept getting bigger and bigger. Soon, he could see tiny fruits starting to grow. They kept getting bigger and bigger. Eventually, he could tell that they were pumpkins!

That fall, the pumpkins were really big. Bill picked the biggest one and brought it to the fair. He got a blue ribbon for the biggest pumpkin!

Bill's parents had other plants in their garden. They had strawberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, and many other fruits and vegetables. But they all started as tiny seeds.
1. Who did some planting?
2. What was his first step?
3. What did he put in there?
4. What kind of seed was it?
5. What did he hope for?
6. Did he forget about his seed after he planted it?
7. What did he do with it then?
8. Anything else?
9. Did the seed die out?
10. What did it grow into?
11. What kind of plant?
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answer: 1. Bill.
2. Digging a hole.
3. The seed.
4. Pumpkin.
5. unknown
6. No.
7. Check on the seed.
8. Some days, if the ground was dry, he poured more water on it.
9. No.
10. A plant.
11. A pumpkin plant.

question: (CNN) -- The grandmother of a missing Maine toddler says no family members in the home the night the girl vanished had anything to do with her disappearance.

"I feel violated. Somebody came into my home and took my granddaughter who was sleeping," Phoebe DiPietro said during her first television interview about Ayla Reynolds, the now 21-month-old toddler.

Ayla disappeared December 17. Police have said they believe foul play was involved. They also say the DiPietros have fully co-operated in the investigation.

Sitting in her living room, steps away from Ayla's bedroom, DiPietro said she heard nothing while she slept that night. She wasn't the last one to go to bed that night and wasn't sure whether the doors were locked. She and her son suspect the child was abducted.

Update: Grandmother changes story

"I'm sure that eventually they will be able to let us know how someone go into the house whether it was an unlocked window, an unlocked door, I don't know," DiPietro said. 'If I knew, it wouldn't have happened," she added.

Investigators have said there were several adults in the DiPietro home that night, including DiPietro and her 24-year-old son. Police won't identify the others, nor reveal much else.

Neither will Phoebe DiPietro. She says detectives have asked her and her son not to divulge details of what happened that night to avoid possibly hindering the investigation.

"I can tell you there was not a party here at the house. Just beyond that, I can't answer any questions." She says her son put Ayla to bed every night.
1. Who was abducted?
2. What was her name?
3. How old is she now?
4. Where was she taken from?
5. In who's home?
6. Is she related to the missing babe?
7. What is her relation?
8. In what month did this happen?
9. On what day?
10. What do authorities believe was involved?
11. Who else was in the there at the home?
12. How old is he?
13. Were there any others there?
14. What is the grandmother's first name?
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answer:
1. a toddler
2. Ayla Reynolds
3. 21-month
4. bedroom
5. DiPietro
6. yes
7. grandmother
8. December
9. 17
10. foul play
11. her so
12. 24-year
13. yes
14. Phoebe