Beaver Dams and Environmental Impact
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This printable science worksheet covers how beavers build dams and their positive and negative effects on the environment. Students read a passage about wetlands, beaver ponds, and silt, then list benefits and drawbacks of dams and complete vocabulary sentences using terms like erosion, wetland, and silt. Suitable for elementary science lessons on ecosystems and animal behavior.
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- erosion: the moving of rocks and soil by water or windsilt: small particles of soil deposited by waterwetland: a habitat where shallow water covers most of the ground
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