Environmental Issues

Which human activity would be most likely to have a negative impact on the environment?

• Planting trees to control soil erosion
• Limiting the use of chemicals that kill weeds.
• Stopping the draining of swamps.
• Burning coal and oil to generate electric power.

What is a renewable resource?
 
 
  

•  one that can be replaced quickly 
• one that is man-made
• one that comes from the sun 
• one that will never run out 

Fertilizers and pesticides are examples of

• industrial waste
• agricultural waste
• sewerage
• road runoff

The gradual increase in the temperature of the atmosphere is known as _____.

• drought
• point source
• global warming
• heat

What is the major cause for air pollution? 

• factories and cars
• cigarretes 
• deforestation
• oil spills

Coal, oil and gas are examples of

• Shell Fuels
• Bone fuels
• Fossil fuels
• Sea fulels

Nutrient Pollution is...

• Pollution made up of bacteria
• Pollution made up of chemicals
• Pollution made up of phosphate and nitrate
• Pollution made up of too much dirt and land moving into the water

Three general categories of environmental issues are related to

• resource use, pollution, and population growth.

• pollution, climate change, and greenhouse gases.

• air, water, and soil pollution.

• natural resources, costs, and benefits.

Advances in medicine and in farming have increased

• human population growth

• biodiversity

• renewable resources

• exotic species

Trash in the environment is a problem because

• animals can eat it and die.

• animals can get their heads stuck in containers.

• it can kill ocean plants and animals.

• all of the above