Environmental changes

Which word best matches the definition: Death of a population

• Extinction

• Adaptation

Which word best matches the definition: An event that occurs in a short period of time

• Long-term environmental change

• Short-term environmental change

Which word best matches the definition: An event that occurs over time

• Long-term environmental change

• Short-term environmental change

Which word best matches the definition: A characteristic or behavior that allows an organism to survive in a changing environment

• Adaptation

• Drought

Fill in the blank: Global warming is considered a long-term environmental change because it changes the __________ of the world over a long period of time.

• Drought

• Climate

• Genetic

Fill in the blank: Deforestation is a ____________ change because it usually takes a forest hundreds of years to return to its full, climax ecosystem.

• Long-term

• Short-term

Fill in the blank: A ______________ happens when there is not enough water to sustain life.

• Drought

• Genetic

An ______ includes all living and nonliving things together in an area.

• population

• ecosystem

• consumers

• producers

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Changes to an environment may make it more difficult for an organism to find-

• food.

• shelter.

• water.

• all of the above

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How might cutting down the trees in a rainforest

environment affect the animals that live there?

• All of the animals that live there will perish rapidly.

• Animals will move to new areas to meet

  their needs.

• The animals will make their homes

  under ground.

• Animals that eat tree leaves

  will become carnivores.

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