Human Impact

Jackie lives in a newly-built housing development. Which statement best explains why most of the residents are having problems with insects and mice in their homes?

• The land where the houses were built underwent desertification.

• Building the houses reversed the order of the layers of soil in that location.

• Building houses has taken away habitats and the animals have not yet relocated.

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Cutting down trees without replanting the area results in no roots to hold the soil together. Possible results of deforestation are

• Acid rain

• Improved soil quality

• Fertile land

• Erosion and desertification

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In this picture which spheres are directly impacted by air pollution

• Hydrosphere and atmosphere

• Atmosphere and biosphere

• Geosphere and hydrosphere

• Biosphere and geosphere

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Human activities impact Earth’s spheres. What effect to Earth’s spheres is best represented in this picture?

• Air pollution

• Water pollution

• Land pollution

• Acid Rain

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Tropical rainforests are important to the entire world because they produce oxygen and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. They also provide a habitat for organisms that do not live anywhere else. One concern about the environment is the destruction of rainforests because people want to use the land for other purposes. This is known as:

• Deforestation

• Urbanization

• Desertification

• Land Pollution

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The town of Winchester recently built a factory near a lake. Which of the following could cause a decrease in water quality?

• Dumping toxic chemical waste into the streams and the lake

• Using a water treatment facility

• Using nontoxic chemicals

• Reducing the amount of waste products by recycling

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What is desertification?

• Loss of variety in species of animals and plants in an area

• establishment of cities in desert areas

• what happens when cities don't have adequate infrastructure

• the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture

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The introduction of wastes to an environment, such as sewage and chemicals, that can harm plants and animals is

• Pollution

• Oil spill

• Photosynthesis

• Chemosynthesis

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When the air is polluted, a mixture of harmful gaseous compounds are released into the atmosphere that can result in acid rain

• True

• False

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One of the problems of endangered rivers results from the large number of wastewater overflow sites that are found along the course of the river. These wastewater overflow sites are a direct result of

• global warming

• urbanization

• recycling programs

• atmospheric changes

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