DIRECTIONS:  To celebrate Earth Day click on the links below and find the answers to the questions.

1.  When is Earth day celebrated? _______________________________________________________________________
2.  Why do we celebrate Earth Day? ______________________________________________________________________
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3.  What year did it start? ______________________________________________________________________________
4.  What will people do to celebrate Earth Day?     A) _______________________________________________________
B) _____________________________________    C) _________________________________________
Find the answer at:  For Students- Grolier- New Book of Knowledge- New Book of Knowledge- type Earth Day in the
Find It Fast box- choose Happy Earth Day. 

5. What are ways you can help make Earth a cleaner place?
Reduce: A) ___________________________________________________________________________________________
B) __________________________________________________________________________________________________
Reuse:  A) ___________________________________________________________________________________________
B) __________________________________________________________________________________________________
Recycle:  A) __________________________________________________________________________________________
B) __________________________________________________________________________________________________
Find the answer at :  http://www.earthday.gov/athome.htm#waste
http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/school.htm#Redux

6. Visit Recycle City, find the Community Warehouse on the map, and list 4 things that are recycled in the warehouse.
A) ________________________________________________    B) ____________________________________________
C) ________________________________________________    D) ____________________________________________
http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/mainmap.htm

7. What are two environmental dangers to the world's many oceans and their rich marine life?
A.) _________________________________________________________________________________________________
B.) _________________________________________________________________________________________________
Find the answer at :
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/peril_pollution1.html

8.  What did you learn about hummingbirds?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________
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http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/humm/jr/JnKidsOverview.html

9.  What did you learn about Gray Whales?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________
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http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/gwhale/jr/WhaleIntro1.html

 
Identify Monarch Butterflies at the Journey North
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/monarch/sl/8/0.html

Explore the web site from Journey North
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/KidsJourneyNorth.html

Learn about the migration of the American Golden-Plover from the Migratory Max web site
http://earthday.wilderness.org/migmax/

A fun quiz from Environment Canada.  Choose an easy, intermediate or advanced quiz on the following topics-
Great Lakes, Environmental Protection, Species at Risk and Wildlife.
http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/greatlakeskids/glk-quiz-e.html