Human Impact & Natural Resources

1. What are renewable resources?

• resources that are used faster than they form

• resources that can replenish themselves over time

• resources that formed over millions of years

• resources that exist only in rural areas

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renewable means you can keep getting them like the wind or sun

According to the graph, what material’s recycling would reduce the largest portion of America’s trash?

• Metals

• paper

• plastics

• Yard trimmings

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What is global warming

• the normal temperature fluctuations of Earth's climate cycle

• the melting of the polar ice caps

• the trend of increasing temperatures on Earth

• the changes in Earth's biosphere that affect the atmosphere

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1. What does the Endangered Species Act do?

• It provides food for endangered species.

• It protects organisms that are near extinction and their environments

• It protects populations of animals from predators

• It protects endangered plant species only.

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Which term describes the practice of managing resources so that current needs are met without harming future generations?

• species introduction

• sustainable development

• habitat fragmentation

• biomagnification

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When humans burn fossil fuels, most of the carbon quickly enters the ____________ as carbon dioxide.

• Water

• Atmosphere

• Sun

• Air

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Which one of these does not add CO2 to the atmosphere?

• cooking with gas

• planting trees

• burning wood

• riding in a bus

What is deforestation?

• Clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale

• Eating too much vegetables

• Going to a forest and pulling weeds

• Clearing the five trees in my backyard

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How long does it take for fossil fuels to form?

• 100 years

• 10,000 years

• millions of years

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The process in which plants use energy from the sun to convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and glucose.

• respiration

• decomposition

• photosynthesis

• combustion

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