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Air and Water Pollution  Facts Questions Answer: If you eat a fish that was poisoned you could get a serious disease or even die. Answer: So far I have found out that there are none yet, but we can start making less factories to prevent air pollution. Habitat Heroes Facts
 * 1.5 billion people breathe polluted air!
 * Stuff like dead animals can pollute water!
 * How can water pollution hurt you?
 * Are there smokeless factories?
 * Coral reefs cover 1% of the earths surface, but 25% of marine live there.
 * Shark nets are supposed to help sharks stay away, but they actually harm them!
 * Rain forests once covered 14% of the worlds surface but now only covers 6%

Questions Answer: A team of scientists in Japan have made a way to regrow coral reefs by using ceramic dishes to grow coral for transplants. Answer: Weather isn't the only cause, there are a lot more so we can focus on the other causes to stop desertification. Forest Defenders  Facts Questions Answer: Yes there is paper made from straw, sugarcane bagasse and bamboo and other things and it saves trees. Answer: Yes if we recycle paper we cut down less trees so start recycling. Desertification  Facts
 * Can we regrow our coral reefs?
 * How can we stop desertification if the weather is the cause?
 * Deforestation kills species of trees!
 * We destroy 1 acre of forests every second!
 * Can we use paper not made from trees?
 * Does recycling help deforestation?
 * =====In 2025 only 25% of africa's population will be able to survive from farming if desertification continues.=====
 * Desertification is occuring in 70% of all drylands, or one-quarter of the total land area of the earth.

Questions
 * Why do people burn grass?

Answer: To burn out all the grass clippings or weeds in their lawn, thus causing deforestation Answer: It is a lot hotter so the sun burns a lot more places.
 * Why does desertification tend to happen in Africa?

Mahatma Gandhi ﻿ Mahatma Gandhi was trained as an attorney in England. He is considered the father of India. He helped India gain independence from the British in 1947. His main weapon was non-violence. He was a very simple man with deep thinking, who inspired Martin Luther King Junior. He liked to practice an Indian tradition called "mouna vrath" which meant "practicing silence". He was assassinated soon after India got its independence. Is Antarctica a desert? Antarctica is a dessert because the definition of desert is a place with less than 254 millimeters of precipitation annually. Antarctica gets only about 200 millimeters of precipitation annually. Therefore Antarctica is considered a desert.