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Endangered species act |
What law was passed to protect endangered animals? |
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No harassment, killing or placement of urbanization |
What does the law do? |
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Vulture like specie that feeds on dead corpses |
What is a California Condor |
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Farmers killed them. they were put in private parts in the zoo to retain wilderness |
Why are they endangered? What was done to save them? |
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Weakened shell eggs. The book Silent Spring was released to arouse awareness of DDT |
What did DDT to wildlife? How was the problem resolved?
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Deer population rose, in order to retain any more increase in deer, wolves were brought from canada |
What did wolf killing cause and how was the problem resolved? |
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Reusing is taking an object in its current state and using it again. Recycling requires an object to be broken down and be turned into a new object. |
Whats the difference between reusing and recycling? |
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Camping attracts bears |
Why are grizzly bears a problem? |
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50% died due to the meteorite and the other half died |
Around what amount of the population of the dinosaurs was wiped out due to the meteorite and what the rest due to the ice age? |
