Project+Facts,+Questions,+and+Answers

__ ﻿The Forest Defenders: __ __ Facts: __ __ Questions and Answers: __
 * We destroy 1 acre of forest per second
 * Brazil's rainforest has lost 200 football fields of rainforest
 * 1) What are greenhouse gases? -Gases in the earth's atmosphere that produce the greenhouse effect.
 * 2) How does littering affect trees? -The product that was littered might have chemicals that can create a deadly chemical called Leachate and combined with rainwater can pull the soil out of the earth.

__ Air and Water Pollution: __ __ Facts: __
 * More people are dieing from water pollution a day then 9/11 it had between 6,000-8,000 deaths and water pollution has about 153,000 deaths per day
 * 1.5 billion people who live in or near urban areas breath very polluted air

__ Questions and Answers: __ __ Oil Spills: __ __ Facts: __
 * 1) How do plants stop air pollution? -They filter the air and clean it.
 * 2) Why are children susceptible to getting sick from air pollution? -Because children have small and young lungs and the pollution will hurt them faster because of the size of them.
 * More than 800 birds are dieing because of the oil
 * The BP oil spill killed 11 people

__ Questions and Answers: __
 * 1) What is a oil rig? -A rig, consisting of machinery, used to drill for oil and other products like natural gas.
 * 2) If only 5% of the oil that is in the oceans are from oil spills what causes the other 95% of the oil that enters the oceans? -Toxic wastes and illegal dumping into the oceans.

__ Habitat Heroes: __ __ Facts: __
 * The most destructive form of fishing is bottom trawling
 * There are about 400 dead zones around the world

__ Questions and Answers: __
 * 1) What is Uranium minning? -Uranium mining is taking uranium ore out of the ground.
 * 2) What are food bins (food plots) for animals? -These are areas that are planted to attract animals or keep animals in thier origanal habitat.

__ Eco Team ... Desertification: __ __ Facts: __
 * In 2025 only 25%of Africa's population will be able to survive because of desertification
 * Desertification is occuring in 70% of all dryland and one-fourth of the total land area on the earth

__ Questions and Answers: __
 * 1) Why do people burn fields? -Some people burn fields to grow cops.
 * 2) How can you over graze? -By not giving an animal enough food to eat so it eats all the food it can in that area.

__ Habitat Hazards:﻿ __ __ Facts: __
 * In 1950 about 15% of the earth's surface was covered in rainforest but now half of that has gone up in smoke
 * Every second a part of the rainforest as big as a football field is destroyed

__ Questions and Answers: __
 * 1) Who is Ghandi? -Ghandi led the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule during the first half of the 20th century.
 * 2) What is the oldest ecosytems? -most places said it is the rainforests.

Some More Questions and Answers:
 * 1) What is soil erosion and how do trees help it? -Soil erosion is the washing away of soil by the flow of water and trees help by the roots holding the soil in place so it doesn't wash away.