Human Impact on the Environment

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What is a renewable resource?

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An object you can reuse

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Which one is a non renewable resource? Options: water, wind, coal, biomass

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coal

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__________ is an energy resource that WILL run out in the next several hundred years.
Options: Renewable Energy Resource, Nonrenewable Energy Resource

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Nonrenewable Energy Resource

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Which human activity would preserve nonrenewable resources? Options: deforestation, removing carnivores from a forest, recycling, heating homes with fossil fuels

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recycling

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What causes deforestation and releases toxic minerals in the soil?

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Coal Mining

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What is not a negative impact on the environment? Options: captive breeding, coal mining, deforestation, global warming

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captive breeding

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What is not a positive impact on the environment? Options: Captive Breeding, Coal Mining, Recycling, Carpooling

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Coal Mining

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Habitat manipulation is a powerful tool wildlife managers use to:

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manage populations.

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Ecosystem Services include: filtering water, ___________________________, and producing the food we eat.

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sucking carbon dioxide out of the air

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Deforestation can lead to another Ecosystem impact called __________________________ which is the spread of dry, unproductive landscapes.

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Desertification