Honey Bee Mystery and Mexican-American War Current Events

Delan Chen

7/8 Blue

12/9/09

Honey Bee Mystery

      A lot of honey bees are leaving their hives and dying the the United States. Without the honey bees, we wouldn't get the delicious honey from them, but also since honey bees are pollinators, they allow plants to grow fruits and nuts that many of us have eaten. There are around 40,000 honey bees in each colony. In California, their almond crops rely on around half of the honey bees in the United States which is about 1.5 million colonies! Unfortunately since many honey bees are dying, the almond and other crops may be in danger. The crops wouldn't grow an abundant amount of fruits and nuts since there wouldn't be enough honey bees left to pollinate. Around how long does the honey bees pollinate in the almond groves in California before setting out to pollinate other crops?

   A. 4 weeks

   B. 5 weeks

   C. 6 weeks

Mexican-American War

 The Mexican-American war started in 1846 and ended in 1848. The conflict was over the possession of Texas between the United States and Mexico. The war was fought in several different places such as Texas, Mexican City, New Mexico and many others. The result of the war was that the United States had defeated Mexico and gained possession of Texas. One of the famous battle of this war would be the Battle of the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. The casualties for the American soldiers were 13, 780 dead and a lot more wounded. The casualties for the Mexican was a lot higher than the American and some estimate around 25, 000 soldiers dead. Around how many soldiers did the American army had to fight against the Mexicans?


   A. 78,700 soldiers
   B. 40, 000 soldiers
   C. 25, 580 soldiers


Source for the honey bees: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/AnimalsNature/Honey-bee-mystery
Sources for the Mexican-American War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican–American_War
http://www.historyguy.com/Mexican-American_War.html


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