Areas that have been set aside for the protection of threatened or endangered species are known as:

National Wildlife Refuges

Areas that have been set aside for the protection of threatened or endangered species.  Endangered Species Act 1973 Designed to identify and protect endangered species in the United States. Endangered Species Has so few individual survivors that the species could soon become extinct. 

meteorologists would compare a new weather map with one 24 h old to see how fast a front is moving.

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sequence 1- deletion

                  2- duplication

                  3- insertion

                  4- substitute

                  5- inversion