Human Impacts on the Environment

The burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas, causes

• more greenhouse gasses to be released into the atmosphere

• less greenhouse gasses to be released into the atmosphere

• no change in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations

Increasing the amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere will cause global temperatures to

• Increase

• Decrease

• Stay the same

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We can decrease the amount of greenhouse gasses we put in the atmosphere by...

• burning less fossil fuels

• using more renewable energy

• using a bike or walking instead of driving a car

• all options are correct

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Fossil fuels are an example of a

• renewable resource

• non-renewable resource

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The formation of fossil fuels takes

• millions of years

• a few days

• about the same amount of time as an average human lives

• place in factories

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When farmers spray pesticides and herbicides on their fields, that poison could end up....

• in local streams, groundwater, and drinking water

• just in the fields

• in our homes

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The water cycle naturally purifies water through the process of

• filtration, aeration, and evaporation

• precipitation, condensation, evaporation

• evapotranspiration

• filtering the water through soil and rocks

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The water cycle transports...

• water, pollutants, sediment

• dirt and gravel

• water and air

• aerosolized droplets

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The carbon that makes up fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and natural gas, was...

• never in the atmosphere

• once removed from the atmosphere

• once in a factory or burned in an engine

• stuck in the upper atmosphere

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When farmers spray pesticides and herbicides on their fields, that poison affects _______ most.

• plant leaves

• small insects

• seeds

• highest order consumers

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