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Name one item that can be recycled.
Answers will vary (paper, plastic, cans)
What part of nature helps clean up air pollution?
Plants and trees
What is a long time without rain called?
A drought
How do animals survive when there is a drought?
Move to other ponds / find water
If you get too much rain it may cause a what?
A flood
How do animals survive a flood?
Move to drier places
What might happen when lightning strikes after a drought?
It might cause a forest fire
What is waste that harms land, water, or air called?
Pollution
Pollution can also harm what besides land, water, or air?
Plants and animals
Trash that is not put in a trash can is called what?
Litter
How does litter hurt plants or animals?
Answers will vary (litter may cover plants so they do not get sun or make animals sick when eaten)
Name something that might pollute the air?
Name something that might pollute the land.
Answers will vary (trash, litter, waste)
Name something that might pollute the water.
Answers will vary (wastes from factories)
Name one way YOU can help the environment.
Answers will vary (pick up litter, recycle, plant trees)
What does the word "reuse" mean?
To use again
When people reuse tires to make a playground, or reuse a milk jug to make a bird feeder)
What does the word "recycle" mean?
To use old materials to make new things
What is one way you can help take care of the land?
What is one way you can help take care of the water?
Answers will vary (you can help pick up litter or clean the water of ponds, lakes, and the ocean)
Tell what happens in a drought.
You get very little rain so the soil dries up, plants, die, animals move away
Tell what happens in a flood.
You get too much rain, streets get covered with water, plants die, animals move
What is pollution?
Waste that harms air, water, or land.
What is "recycle"?
Using old materials to make new things?
What is litter?
Trash that is not put in a trash can.
What is "reuse"?
Using items again