Fascinating Facts • Most Americans use nearly seven hundred pounds of paper each year • Thirty-nine percent of things put in landfills are made of paper and could have been recycled • It takes between five hundred and one thousand years for just one inch of rich soil to form Genre Nonfiction Comprehension Skill Draw Conclusions Text Features • • • • Headings/Subheadings Map Time Line Captions Scott Foresman Social Studies ISBN 0-328-14830-X ì