APES Unit 5 Test Part 2 Eugenia

Why do some consumers avoid GMOs?

• they are more expensive

• GMO products taste bad

• they are harder to find at the supermarket

• GMOs are not as nutritious as other foods

• some consumers believe GMOs are not safe to eat

Industrial logging in a deciduous forest can cause...

• an increase in atmospheric CO2

• a decrease in flooding

• an increase in atmospheric O2

• an increase in ecological services

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Human activities, such as agriculture, can require altering the land.

Question 1: Identify an environmental problem associated with large-scale intensive agriculture on soil.

Question 2: Identify a potential sustainable agricultural practice to reduce the impact of large-scale intensive agriculture on soils.

Question 3: Describe a drawback of using sustainable agricultural practices to produce crops

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Mineral resources are extracted from the earth by mining ore and separating it from the residual rock.

Question 1: Identify one type of mining that is used to extract natural resources from the earth.

Figure 1 shows the amount of sediment in runoff in undisturbed areas and in areas where mining has disturbed the vegetation in the riparian zone of a stream in Brazil.

Question 2: Identify the day of the study when the largest amount of sediment was present in runoff.

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