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Bill: This is Mrs. McKee. I was looking over your research page, and needless to say, i'm a bit alarmed at your lack of progress. You will be writing a two-page paper next week, and you will need five research questions and answers in order to write it. What questions have you formulated about whales, and where are the answers? Get busy and do not add any more irrelevant pictures. Find information and copy/paste it here. Be sure to copy the URL as well for your works cited page.

Five Questions why did whaling start? who started whaling? where did whaling start? what is whale used for? how has whaling affected the life of whales?

Whaling began in the Arctic and spread to all the oceans of the world. At the end of the 18th century there were 200 British whalers. The peak of northern hemisphere whaling was in 1842 - at that time there were 594 American whalers.

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[] Whaling started in the 10th century. In 1712, the Americans started to hunt the sperm whale. At that time, they used rowboats and threw harpoons by hand. Whaling started to spread all over the world. In 1843, whaling was very popular until 50 years later when it was almost over. b [] Thousands of years ago people only knew whales if they were stranded on the coast. They thought these whales were gifts of gods and they began to use the whales for their own lives. They ate the meat, used the blubber as fuel, and used the bones as building material. People recognized that whales were useful and after awhile they tried to hunt them. Very brave men in little boats caught whales with harpoons. The earliest whale hunters were probably the Vikings. Then, people from other countries like Spain, France, England, and the Netherlands also began to catch whales. The hunters couldn’t separate and use the whale in their ships and they had to transport them to land. This was difficult, so they could only catch whales near land. []