Human Impact on the Environment (Check for Understanding)

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A large power plant burns coal to generate electricity for nearby homes and businesses. This contributes most directly to which long-term human-induced environmental change? Options: wildlife hazard, global warming, eutrophication, habitat destruction.

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global warming

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Which statement best explains how deforestation affects organisms?

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It increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, enhancing global warming.

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Which situation is an example of a human-induced environmental change affecting a population?

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Blue jays no longer live in a forest because the trees in the forest were cut down.

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Kudzu has overgrown many parts of southern Missouri and native ground plants have disappeared from the area. This is an example of:

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Competition occurring between the native and invasive species

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A harmful substance that contaminates a natural environment

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Pollution

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An alien (non-native to the ecosystem) species, usually brought to an area by humans, that competes for resources and causes problems for the native species within an ecosystem

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Invasive Species

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The science, art, and business of cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising livestock

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Agriculture

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Which is not associated with deforestation? Options: Loss of biodiversity, Increase of atmospheric oxygen, Increase of greenhouse gases, Potential loss of undiscovered herbal medicines

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Increase of atmospheric oxygen

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A disadvantage of urbanization is:

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an increase of fossil fuel use

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Which human activity contributes the MOST carbon dioxide to the atmosphere? Options: Fishing, Breathing, Burning Fossil Fuels, Farming

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Burning Fossil Fuels