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Why was Kay Kerr unhappy when she looked across Berkeley Bay in 1960?
She saw bulldozers filling in the Bay with soil and rocks
She saw people fishing along the shore
She saw birds hunting for food
What is an estuary?
A place where freshwater mixes with salt water from the ocean
A group of leaders who protect the environment
A type of fragile bird that lives in the Bay
What does extinct mean?
Alive and healthy
Moved to another place
Gone forever or died out completely
Why were the women worried about filling in the Bay?
It would give people more land to build houses
It would make the Bay more beautiful
It would destroy the ecosystem and make animals lose their homes
What is an ecosystem?
A law to protect the Bay
A community of plants and animals that live together
A machine for building land
What is pollution?
Dirty waste or trash that harms the environment
A plan to save the Bay
Protecting nature
What does fill in the Bay mean?
To clean up trash from the Bay
To put soil and rocks into water to make land
To write answers on paper
What does conservation mean?
The act of destroying the Bay
A plan to build new houses
The act of protecting nature
