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What is a Carbon Footprint?

• How much carbon a person produces while walking

• A measurement of a person's negative impact on the environment.

• Fossilised footprints left behind by prehistoric man

• The abount of carbon found in shoes

Pick the word that goes with this definition: protect from harm or destruction.

• Conservation

• Recycle

• Protect

• Natural Resources

The method of removing salt and other minerals from sea water is:

• dehydration

• desalination

• destruction

• desert

A drought is ....

• Very high rainfall

• a period of above average precipitation in a certain region

• a period of below average precipitation in a certain region

• a desert

Fossil Fuels are

• pieces of rock that have been compacted many times

• rock that contains 50% plant and animal remains

• metamorphic rock

• fuels that form from the remains of plant and other organisms that were buried and altered over million of years

Hurricanes are...

• storms of dust

• dangerous storms of wind and rain

• found in oceans near the North Pole

• landforms

The gradual increase in the temperature of the atmosphere is known as ________________.

• Greenhouse Effect
• Global Warming
• Carbon Dioxide Gases
• Methane

What does conserving resources mean?

• Use as much of the resources as you can
• Only use the resources at school
• Protecting the resource so it does not run out

Natural resources are

• renewable.
• nonrenewable.
• resources that exist without actions of humankind. 
• resources produced by humans from using biotic and abiotic factors found in nature.

_____________________ is the contamination of air, land, and water.

• Conservation

• Ecology

• Pollution

• Deforestation