Learning Activity Worksheets Science Week Week8 Protection and Conservation of Estuaries and Intertidal Zones Activity 1. TRUE or FALSE

Directions: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it is not

1.An ecosystem is a place where living and nonliving things interact, such as a rotting log, a forest, or even a schoolyard

2. An estuary is a body of water near the coast where fresh water from vers and streams enters the ocean and moxes with salt water.

3. Estuanes play an important role in our lives

4.The estuaries must be protected and conserved

5. We don't need an estuary because we have a forest where we can find other living and nonliving things

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most historians agree that gabriel mouton, the vicar of st. paul’s church in lyons, france, is the “founding father” of the metric system. he proposed a decimal system of measurement in 1670. mouton based it on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth (now called a nautical mile, 1852 meters). he also proposed the swing-length of a pendulum with a frequency of one beat per second as the unit of length (about 25 cm). a pendulum beating with this length would have been fairly easy to produce, thus facilitating the widespread distribution of uniform standards. over the years, his work was revised, improved, and extended by a number of french scientists.

the political sponsor of weights and measures reform in the french revolutionary national assembly was the bishop of autun, better known as talleyrand. under his auspices, the french academy appointed several committees to carry out the work of developing a usable system of weights and measures for france. one of the committees recommended a decimalized measurement system based upon a length equal to one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the earth’s meridian (i.e., one ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and the north pole).