Protecting Our Environment

What pesticide was used in the mid 20th century, but was residual and had many negative impacts on the food chain?

• Azanine

• BPA

• Glycophosphate

• DDT

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NGSS.HS-LS2-7

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

What do we call a pesticide that kills insects?

• insecticide

• herbicide

• fungicide

• rodenticide

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What do we call a pesticide that kills plants?

• Insecticide

• Herbicide

• Fungicide

• Rodenticide

The use of pesticides helps increase crop yield.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

When a gas (water vapor) changes to a liquid

• condensation

• evaporation

• transpiration

• precipitation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What phase of the water cycle is #4?

• Evaporation

• condensation

• precipitation

• runoff

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What phase is # 2

• ground water

• evapotranspiration

• transpiration

• condensation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is an aquifer?

• a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.

• a well in which water is under pressure especially : one in which the water flows to the surface naturally.

• confining layer

• solid rock underlying loose deposits such as soil or alluvium.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

____________ is water that is stored under the surface of the ground.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

One of our most precious natural resources is ______.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4