Based on the information present in the given passage, you need to write a correct answer to the given question. A correct answer is one that correctly and completely answers the question. Do not write answers that address the question partially or incorrectly. The correct answer must be contained in the given paragraph.

Paragraph- Sent 1: Water flowing over Earths surface or underground causes erosion and deposition.
Sent 2: Water flowing over a steeper slope moves faster and causes more erosion.
Sent 3: How water transports particles depends on their size.
Sent 4: When water slows down, it starts depositing sediment.
Sent 5: This process starts with the largest particles first.
Sent 6: Runoff erodes the land after a heavy rain.
Sent 7: It picks up sediment.
Sent 8: Runoff carries most of the sediment to bodies of water.
Sent 9: Mountain streams erode narrow, V-shaped valleys and waterfalls.
Sent 10: Erosion and deposition by slow-flowing rivers create broad floodplains and meanders.
Sent 11: Deposition by streams and rivers may form alluvial fans and deltas.
Sent 12: Floodwaters may deposit natural levees.
Sent 13: Erosion and deposition by groundwater can form caves and sinkholes.
Sent 14: Stalactites and stalagmites are mineral deposits.
Sent 15: They build up in caves as water continues to drip. 
Question: What body of water carries the particles?.
Rivers.

Paragraph- Sent 1:  We waited for half an hour, watching the smoke curling over the house, and then, judging that the Indians had made off for fear of being ambushed, we crossed the clearing.
Sent 2: It took but a glance to read the story.
Sent 3: The women had been washing by the little brook before the cabin, with the children playing about them, when the Indians had come up and with a single volley killed them all except the child we had heard crying.
Sent 4: They had swooped down upon their victims, torn the scalps from their heads, looted the house, and set fire to it.
Sent 5: We dragged out the body of the woman which had been thrown within, in the hope that a spark of life might yet remain, but she was quite dead.
Sent 6: Beneath the warrior Spiltdorph had shot we found the child.
Sent 7: It was a boy of some six or seven years, and so covered with blood that it seemed it must be dead.
Sent 8: But we stripped it and washed it in the brook, and found no wounds upon it except in the head, where it had been struck with a hatchet before its scalp had been stripped off.
Sent 9: The cold water brought it back to life and it began to cry again, whereat Spiltdorph took off his coat and wrapped it tenderly about it. 
Question: Who had a name in the story?.
Spiltdorph.

Paragraph- Sent 1: Many plants and animal species have lived on Earth.
Sent 2: Most are no longer alive.
Sent 3: Only a tiny number of species still live on Earth.
Sent 4: If not for fossils, we would know little about species that did not survive.
Sent 5: Fossils provide evidence.
Sent 6: They give us clues to past life on Earth.
Sent 7: They tell us that life on Earth has changed over time.
Sent 8: Fossils in younger rock Fossils can also tell us about how plants and animals lived in the past.
Sent 9: Was it land or marine?
Sent 10: Was the water shallow or deep?
Sent 11: Fossils can even provide clues to ancient climates.
Sent 12: They can tell us if it was warm or cold.
Sent 13: Maybe it was cold or hot?
Sent 14: Some places that are now cold were once warm.
Sent 15: Some places that are now hot and dry were once wet and cool.
Sent 16: Fossils provide a window into the past. 
Question: What gives us clues to past life on Earth?.

The fossils.

