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__ AIR AND WATER POLLUTION: __
 * Things that cause water pollution are dead creatures, plastic, chamicals, and rotten food.
 * A way we can help this situation is by starting a club to stop polluting or stop throwing food and liquids into the water.

__ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: __ __ STOP THE OIL SPILL: __
 * How do chemicals cause water pollution? One way chemicals cause water pollution is when farmers use pesticides to controll weeds and run-off of these pesticides can poison aquatic life.
 * How does plastic cause water pollution? Plastic can entangle sea animals and can cause pain, injury, or death.


 * The Exxon Valdez happened on March 24, 1989.
 * When the Exxon Valdez crashed it spilled 260,000 to 750,000 barrels of oil.
 * 2,800 sea otters, 300 harbor seals, 900 bald eagles, and 250,000 seabirds died fron the oil spill.

__ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: __ __ HABITAT HEROS: __
 * What caused the Exxon Valdez to happen? It went out of the normal shipping lanes to avoid the ice, but they struck a reef and that's what caused it.
 * Why did all of those animals die during the Exxon Valdez? The oil got in the water and took over, so it was killing some of the animals foods in the water.
 * Shark nets are to keep the sharks away from people at the beach.
 * Hundreds of sharks are killed every year in shark nets off the KLN coast.
 * The shark nets don't only kill sharks, but they kill other animals. Such as sea turtles, dolphins, manta rays, and whales.

__ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: __
 * How do the shark nets kill the sharks? The sharks get caught in the shark nets and then they drown because they can't get out and swm.
 * How do the shark nets kill the other animals that got killed? the other aminals that get killed by shark net get caught and drown too.

__ ECO TEAM...... DESERTIFICATION: __
 * Desertification ruins soil in areas where seasonal rainfall is unreliable.
 * Desertification is occuring to 70% of all drylands.
 * Each year, the planet loses 24billion tons of topsoil, over the last 2 decades.
 * The top causes of desertification are overgrazing, cultivation on marginal lands, destruction of vegitation, poor grazing management after accidental burning, and a lot more.

__ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: __
 * Why do people burn the feilds? People burn fields to produce food for themselves and their families.
 * What is cultivation on marginal lands? That is the process of growing plants on arable land.

__ MORE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: __
 * What is soil erosion? Soil erosion is when soil is blown away by the wind or washed away by the rain.
 * How do trees help soil erosion? The roots of the trees hold the soil causing less soil getting out. The roots of the trees are all connected and wash the soil to make it fertile so it doesn't move.