10 - Human Impact (Non-Regents)

Burning fossil fuels releases

• oxygen

• carbon dioxide

• methane

• heat

Carbon dioxide is an example of a

• greenhouse gas

• liquid

• human activity

• organic molecule

Deforestation leads to

• increased oxygen

• decreased carbon dioxide

• increased carbon dioxide

• decreased oxygen

Which are example of fossil fuels?

• Oxygen

• Coal

• Oil

• Natural gas

As species go extinct what will happen to the biodiversity in that ecosystem?

• Decrease

• Increase

• Stay the same

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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

1. Why has Earth's human carrying capacity increased greatly?

• Other organisms have been displaced by agriculture, so there is more space for humans.

• Humans have modified their environment due to technological advances.

• Humans can live closer together than other animals

• Humans are now eating fewer plants than they used to.

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1. Which of the following is not a renewable resource?

• coal

• wind energy

• solar energy

• water

What is global warming

• the normal temperature fluctuations of Earth's climate cycle

• the melting of the polar ice caps

• the trend of increasing temperatures on Earth

• the changes in Earth's biosphere that affect the atmosphere

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1. Why might an introduced animal species overrun native species in an ecosystem?

• . Its population size is smaller than those of native species.

• . It is more energy efficient, so it eats less food.

• It is a predator of the native species.

• It often has no natural enemies

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