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Reducing Our Impact on Earth

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- We will learn to reduce, reuse and recycle.
- People can have a negative impact on Earth's land, water and air.
- People can also make a positive impact through choices we make.
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Discussion Questions
- Before VideoWhy do we need clean air?ANSWER
People, animals and plants need clean air to breathe.
People, animals and plants need clean water to drink, take a bath or live in.
We need clean land, so plants and animals have a place to live and so that people do not get sick from living in places that are polluted.
Using old items to make new ones.
Litter is trash, such as paper, cans and bottles that has been thrown on the ground instead of into a trash can or recycling bin.
It is when the land, air or water is made dirty by waste, chemicals or other harmful things.
- After VideoWhy should we recycle?ANSWER
To keep land, water and air clean and to have enough resources so other people can enjoy them too.
They end up in the trash. Then a garbage truck will move it to a landfill. At a landfill trash is buried and it can also be burned which leads to air pollution.
Water can get dirty. Then we cannot use it for drinking, bathing and cooking. Animals and plants that live in the water may die.
It gets dirty with chemicals and gases that cause smog. The air can be too dirty to breathe.
Trash is unhealthy, and can make people, animals and plants sick. Chemicals on the land can wash into the water and cause pollution.
It helps save our natural resources. When we reduce, reuse, and recycle, we lessen our negative impact on the earth.
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Vocabulary
- Reduce DEFINE
To use less.
- Reuse DEFINE
To use the same thing more than once.
- Recycle DEFINE
To use old items to make new ones.
- Pollution DEFINE
When the environment is dirtied by waste and other harmful substances.
- Natural Resource DEFINE
Anything from nature that living things can use.
- Landfill DEFINE
A place where a lot of trash is buried.
- Impact DEFINE
To have a strong effect on something.
- Problem DEFINE
Something that needs to be solved.
- Solution DEFINE
An answer to a problem.
- Reduce DEFINE
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