Human Impact on the environment

1. What are renewable resources?

• . Resources that are used faster than they form

• resources that can replenish themselves over time

• resources that formed over millions of years

• resources that exist only in rural areas

Which human activity would preserve nonrenewable resources?

• deforestation
• removing carnivores from a forest 
• recycling
• heating homes with fossil fuels  

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Which human activity would most likely deplete nonrenewable resources?

• use of natural enemies to eliminate insect pests
• development of wildlife refuges 
• governmental restriction of industrial pollution 
• increased use of fossil fuels

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Deforestation by burning has been described as a "double whammy" to the environment, meaning it has 2 negative impacts. Why is this description accurate? 

• Forest burning releases CO₂ while decreasing oxygen, which disrupts cycles
• Deforestation reduces the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere, which depletes the ozone layer
• Forest clearing is often followed by land development, which often leads to increased noise pollution
• Deforestation increases the number of plant and animal species by destroying habitat

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Which of these choices is a good example of point source pollution?

• An area in the ocean has high levels of nutrients

• A creek has high levels of bacteria

• Plastic trash is floating in the river

• Waste from a coal mine is leaking into a local creek

Urban and suburban developments lead to more asphalt, concrete, and rooftops, which leads to more -

• Runoff

• Soil erosion

• Pollution in our watershed

• All of these

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The definition of Desertification is...

• Land that is fertile and able to grow plants

• the process of ocean water losing salt

• the process in which land loses fertility and ability to grow plants

• giving humans the advantage of having fertile soil

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Pollution hanging over urban areas that causes reduced visibility is called

• Air pollution
• Temperature inversion
• Light pollution
• Smog

What is the greenhouse effect?

• The warming of a planet due to trapped radiation.
• The cooling of Earth due to air pollution.
• The heating of a solid, such as a rock.

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What chemical is responsible for breaking up the ozone?

• CFCs

• Carbon Dioxide

• Nitrogen

• Oxygen

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