SL Ch 20 8th

largest number of individuals of a population that the environment can support  

• carrying capacity
• primary succession 
• denitrification
• mutualism

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Which problem today is primarily the result of the Industrial Revolution?

• extensive air and water pollution

• increased transmission of disease between people living in close proximity

• decline in quality of agricultural soil

• erosion from deforestation as more fuel wood is harvested

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The human population is now about

• 300 million

• 1.3 billion

• 7 billion

• 12 billion

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What event in the mid-1700s significantly changed human population growth?

• human settlement

• Industrial Revolution

• development of agriculture

• Bubonic plague

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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 of areas considered to be rich sources of genetic material could limit future agricultural and medical advances due to

• the maintenance of dynamic equilibrium 
• the loss of biodiversity 
• an increase in the ecosystem’s carrying capacity
• the depletion of the ozone layer

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Urbanization is

• the process by which human activity and natural process damage land to the point that it can no longer support the local ecosystem.

• replacing forests, fields, and grasslands with houses, roads, schools and shopping area.

• the growth of urban areas caused by people moving into cities

• The process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another

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This image is an example of what type of land degradation

• Desertification

• Deforestation

• Urbanization

• Urban Sprawl

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Urban Sprawl is

• large network of roads and train tracks that connect urban and rural areas across the country

• process by which land becomes more desert-like and unable to support life

• replacing forests, fields, and grasslands with houses, roads, schools and shopping area.

• the process by which human activity and natural process damage land to the point that it can no longer support the local ecosystem.

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