The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The organization has four major science disciplines, concerning biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The USGS is a fact-finding research organization with no regulatory responsibility.

The USGS is a bureau of the United States Department of the Interior; it is that department's sole scientific agency. The USGS employs approximately 8,670 people and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. The USGS also has major offices near Lakewood, Colorado, at the Denver Federal Center, and Menlo Park, California.

The current motto of the USGS, in use since August 1997, is "science for a changing world." The agency's previous slogan, adopted on the occasion of its hundredth anniversary, was "Earth Science in the Public Service."

Prompted by a report from the National Academy of Sciences, the USGS was created, by a last-minute amendment, to an act of Congress on March 3, 1879. It was charged with the "classification of the public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain". This task was driven by the need to inventory the vast lands added to the United States by the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the MexicanAmerican War in 1848. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Which war ended in 1848?
2. Is there a motto?
3. When was it started?
4. What is it?
5. What was said prior to this?
6. Are they involved in science?
7. How many disciplines?
8. And they are?
9. When was it started?
10. By what?
11. Was this part of a long range plan?
12. What caused this impulsive event?
13. Which group reported on that?
14. How many employees are there?
15. Where is HQ?
16. Are there any other main office complexes?
17. How many?
18. Where are they?
19. Did the US expand its borders?
Answer: 1. MexicanAmerican War
2. Yes
3. August 1997
4. science for a changing world.
5. Earth Science in the Public Service.
6. Yes
7. four
8. biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.
9. March 3, 1879.
10. an amendment to an act of Congress
11. No
12. the need to inventory the vast lands added to the United States by the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the MexicanAmerican War in 1848.
13. the National Academy of Sciences
14. 8,670
15. Reston, Virginia
16. Yes
17. Three
18. Lakewood and Denver, Colorado, and Menlo Park, California.
19. Yes

Problem: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Eleven-year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover liked football, basketball and playing video games with his little brother.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy says the effects of bullying are becoming more severe.

But on April 6, after enduring what his mother called "relentless" bullying at school, Carl hanged himself with an extension cord in the family's Springfield, Massachusetts, home.

"What could make a child his age despair so much that he would take his own life? That question haunts me to this day, and I will probably never know the answer," Sirdeaner Walker said in a House Education and Labor Committee hearing on school bullying.

"He had just started secondary school in September, and we had high hopes," she said. "But I knew something was wrong, almost from the start." Watch Sirdeaner Walker describe finding her son's body "

He didn't want to say at first, she said, but reluctantly told her of classmates who called him names, "saying he acted gay and calling him faggot," Walker said.

"Hearing that, my heart just broke," she said.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-New York, said the emotional and physical effects of bullying are becoming more severe and that the acts of bullying can continue outside school.

According to the National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center, about 30 percent of school-aged children in the United States are estimated to be involved in bullying, as either a bully or the target of a bully.

Steve Riach, the founder of Heart of a Champion Foundation -- a nonprofit organization that says it offers educators an "innovative and effective approach to developing character in the lives of their students" -- said his organization has learned that students recognize that school safety cannot be accomplished only with security guards and metal detectors.
1. How many school kids are part of bullying in the U.S.?
2. What role can a kid play?
3. Who put that number out?
4. Who started the Heart of a Champion Foundation?
5. What two things does he say is not enough to make schools safe?
6. How old was Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover?
7. What did he begin in the fall?
8. Did it go well?
9. What did kids in his class do
10. like what?
11. What happened on April 6th?
12. With what?
13. Where?
14. Where did he live?
15. Did he have siblings?
16. Which sex?
17. did he like sports?
18. Which ones?
19. Did he have a hobby?
20. What is his mom's name?
Answer: 1. about 30 percent
2. a bully or the target
3. National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
4. Steve Riach
5. security guards and metal detectors
6. eleven
7. secondary school
8. no
9. called him names
10. faggot
11. he hanged himself
12. an extension cord
13. at home
14. Springfield, Massachusetts
15. yes
16. male
17. yes
18. football and basketball
19. playing video games
20. Sirdeaner Walker

question: Tom was a farmer. He worked on the farm all day,but sometimes he went to the town market to sell fruit and vegetables. One day, a terrible sound attracted his attention in the town market. He saw a young bull for sale. The bull was white and yellow. It was looking at Tom in fear. Tom walked up and touched its head gently. Just at that time they both seemed to have known each other for a long time. How amazing!Tom bought it at once and called it Amba. From then on , Tom and Amba got on well with each other. But some friends told him that it was dangerous to have such a close relationship with an animal. One afternoon , Tom was walking through the forest with Amba. Suddenly , Amba stopped walking and kept pushing Tom with its head. Tom was very surprised and looked around. There was a big snake in front of him. It was beautiful but poisonous. Quickly Amba stepped on the snake's tail with its foot and at the same time Tom picked up a stick and hit the snake's head heavily. Soon the snake . died. Tom was very grateful for Amba's help. When people heard this, they were shocked at the bull's expression of love for Tom. But for Tom, Amba was not a bull but a member of his family.
1. what was the bovine named?
2. what was the persons profession>
3. did the person hear something?
4. what?
5. where did it come from?
6. what made the sound?
7. was it old?
8. what did it look like?
9. did something loose it's life?
10. what?
11. did it die of natural causes?
12. how did it die?
13. did the bovine hold affection for someone?
14. who?
15. were they strolling somewhere?
16. where?
17. did the agriculturist peddle something in the township?
18. What?
19. Did he purchase something?
20. What?
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answer:
1. Amba
2. farmer.
3. Yes
4. a terrible sound
5. the town market
6. a bull
7. No
8. it was white and yellow
9. Yes
10. a snake
11. No
12. Tom hit the snake's head with a stick
13. Yes
14. Tom
15. Yes
16. the forest
17. Yes
18. fruit and vegetables
19. Yes
20. Amba