Wetlands and Habitat Loss
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- Q1What is a wetland?a city on a coast where floods occur, often resulting in the loss of human lifean area of land that is filled or covered with water for at least part of the yeara business that makes its money from hunting or fishinga “no net loss” policy requiring the amount of something to remain constant or increase120s
- Q2Destruction of wetlands is an effect. What is one of its causes?Wetlands have been drained and converted to farmland.Many species of migratory birds depend on the wetlands.Regulation has been an important tool in protecting wetlands.Louisiana has some of the most extensive wetlands in the United States.120s
- Q3Wetlands serve important purposes for humans. What information from the passage supports this statement?Louisiana is located at the drainage gateway where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf of Mexico.Wetlands have historically been regarded as centers of disease and insect infestation.Hurricane Katrina caused more than 1,800 casualties, including over 700 in New Orleans.Wetlands can protect people from storms and help them earn a living through fishing.120s
- Q4How have attitudes about wetlands changed in recent decades?People have become less willing to regulate the destruction of wetlands than they used to be.People have become less interested in protecting wetlands than they used to be.People have become more concerned about the threat of disease from wetlands than they used to be.People have become more interested in protecting wetlands than they used to be.120s
- Q5What is this passage mainly about?malariaLousianaHurricane Katrinawetlands120s
- Q6Read the following sentence: “Chances are, however, when you envisioned a swamp (or a marsh or a bog), you conjured up an image of a rather unpleasant place: creepy and shadowy, muddy, overrun with snakes and insects.” What does the word swamp mean in the sentence above?a job related to the hunting or fishing industrya state that is on the Gulf of Mexicoa piece of land that is partly covered by wateran animal species that is in danger of dying out120s
- Q7Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below. For years people wanted to avoid or destroy wetlands; ______, many people want to save wetlands.previouslyas an illustrationin closingcurrently120s