Human Impact 2.7.3

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. Which biome has the highest biodiversity and is the most threatened?

• Temperate forests

• grasslands

• tropical rain forests

• deserts

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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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Which of these is one cause of deforestation?

• Urbanization

• Buying a Christmas tree during the holidays

• Overbreeding birds in the wild

• Cutting down the tree in your backyard

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How do invasive plants damage the environment?

• Compete with native species
• Change plant community
• Alter diversity
• All of these

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