This document contains an Earth Day reading passage and accompanying comprehension questions. It discusses how Earth Day is celebrated annually on April 22nd to promote caring for the planet. The main ideas are: - Earth Day aims to encourage reducing, reusing, and recycling resources to keep the planet clean. - Reduce means using less of things like water and gasoline. Reuse means using items like jars and bags again rather than throwing them out. Recycle means making new things from old materials like aluminum, paper, and plastic. - The passage emphasizes that we must protect the Earth every day, not just on Earth Day, through individual actions like recycling and conserving resources.