Environmental Issues (COVID-19 Topics)

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

What is urbanization?

• Process of making an aread more city-like
• Process of making an area more country-like
• Tearing down a large shopping mall
• Moving to an urban area

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

what is the leading cause of deforestation?

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

What does deforestation effect?

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

What are the effects of deforestation ?

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

Does deforestation contribute to global warming?

• No, trees aren't that important
• Sometimes because only the cutting down of Maple trees contributes to global warming
• No, deforestation adds methane to the atmosphere, which makes the Earth cooler
• Yes; less trees means less CO2 is turned into oxygen.

The impact on the planet due to global warming is called...

• climate change
• the seasons
• the weather
• natural change

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CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

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CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

The conditions in an area over a long period of time?

• Climate
• Weather

Changes from minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-to-day

• Climate
• Weather