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Save the Bay

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