Big Changes in the Big Apple

We usually refer to nature, the wild outdoors, as ___

• the human environment
• the natural environment
• our everyday environment
• resources

We usually refer to homes, stores and the places made by people as ___

• the human environment
• the natural environment
• the wild
• resources

Things that are taken from parts of the world and shaped by people are called ___ 

• the natural environment
• human intervention
• the human environment
• natural resources

The action of moving water from one place to another is called ___

• the natural environment
• irrigation
• the human environment
• natural resources

What kind of organism changes its environment?

• only plants
• only animals
• only humans
• everything that's alive

How many people live in New York City?

• about 9 hundred
• about 9 thousand
• about 9 million
• about 9 billion

After a couple hundred years, the wilderness of New York became paved with over ___

• 96 kilometers of streets
• 960 kilometers of streets
• 9,600 kilometers of streets
• 96,000 kilometers of streets

Every day, how much drinking water is delivered by New York City's water supply system?

• about four hundred liters 
• about four thousand liters 
• about four million liters 
• about four billion liters 

Before humans changed it, what was in the region of Time Square?

• a black bear habitat
• a swamp
• a forest
• a river

New York City is an extreme example of human's ability to ___

• change an environment
• change their mind
• build farms and fortifications
• clear space for crops