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Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 4mins
What is causing fish and coral to disappear near the coast?
Over-fishing
Pollution
Natural disasters
What is the main cause of damage farther out at sea?
Oil spills
Over-fishing
Plastic waste
What disaster do we risk according to the paragraph?
An earthquake
A terrible man-made disaster
A tsunami
Why were whales being caught two centuries ago?
For their oil and meat
For their bones
For their beauty
What helped make whale hunting easier by the 1940s?
Bigger ships
Modern technology
Better weather
What happened to whale numbers from the 1950s to the 1980s?
They stayed the same
They collapsed
They grew quickly
In what year did almost every country agree to stop catching whales?
1940
1985
1950
What is happening to whale populations now?
They are disappearing
They are slowly rising
They are staying the same
