Deforestation Homework

What does deforestation effect?

• Plants and animals
• Our biosphere
• Humans
• All of the above

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What are the effects of deforestation ?

• loss of habitat
• increased green house gasses 
• soil erosion and flooding
• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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Resources of a fixed amount, or a resource that is used up faster than it can be replaced

• Renewable resource
• Nonrenewable resource

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

___________ are materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain.

• Fossil fuels
• Synthetic resources
• Natural resources
• Common resources

Widespread deforestation is a major factor in causing which ecological process?

• famine
• erosion
• monsoons
• tornadoes

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

The cutting down of selected trees in a forest so the growth of other trees is not affected.

• Selective Cutting
• Controlled Burn 
• Thinning
• Clear Cutting

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

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the place where land and a body of water meet

• waves
• shoreline
• surf
• beach

what is the leading cause of deforestation?

• Diseases 
• Housing market
• Agriculture and Farming
• Paper mill

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

Which of these is one cause of deforestation?

• Urbanization
• Buying a chirstmas tree during the holidays
• Overbreeding birds in the wild
• Cutting down the tree in your backyard

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is deforestation?

• Clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale
• Eating too much vegetables
• Going to a forest and pulling weeds
• Clearing the five trees in my backyard

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-5