Grasslands Video

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https://gem.cbc.ca/media/media/the-nature-of-things/episode-2/38e815a-011b3e1a216



Grasslands: A Hidden Wilderness


Watch the first 14mins and 30 seconds of the video.  Answer the following questions.

1.     What animals did you see in the introduction of the video?  Why do you think there are so many different animals?

2.     Grassland songbirds are the fastest declining group of birds.  Why?  What is happening to their habitat?

3.     What makes these birds vulnerable?

4.    List three adaptations that pronghorns have to survive on the prairie grasslands.

5.    What challenges do the pronghorns face? 

6.    How are the habitats of the pronghorns being managed to help them?

7.    How do bison help the grasslands?

8.     Why do you think they say that the grasslands are the least protected area but the most endangered?

9.    What do we need to value to support the grasslands?  How could you make a change?


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