Human Impact on the Environment

Wastes produced by agriculture, households, industry, mining, and other human activities can end up in ______________.

• groundwater
• streams and rivers
• oceans
• All of these choices

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Increase in which gas is primarily responsible for increased global warming?

• Carbon dioxide
• Water vapor
• Methane
• Nitric oxides

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What is the most dramatic result of deforestation?

• land is no longer green and full of life
• pictures from space show deforestation
• loss of habitat for approximately 70% of the worlds species
• people can't explore rainforests

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The natural resources used by society are limited by various factors. Why is coal considered a nonrenewable resource?

• Once coal is used up, it can be immediately replaced.

• Coal is a nonrenewable resource, because it comes from the impact of meteors with the Earth

• Coal was a renewable resource, until it was mismanaged by humans

• Coal is considered a nonrenewable resource, because it takes millions of years to form

Wind is a __________ energy resource.

• Renewable
• Nonrenewable

Which human activity would preserve nonrenewable resources?

• deforestation
• removing carnivores from a forest 
• recycling
• heating homes with fossil fuels  

Which human activity would most likely deplete nonrenewable resources?

• use of natural enemies to eliminate insect pests
• development of wildlife refuges 
• governmental restriction of industrial pollution 
• increased use of fossil fuels

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

What causes smog?

• The burning of particulates
• The formation of ozone
• Acid Rain
• the interaction of sunlight with pollutants produced by fossil fuels

Global warming has been linked to a decrease in 

• the size of the polar ice caps 
• the temperature of Earth 
• the rate of species extinction 
• the rate of carbon dioxide production

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The thinning of the ozone layer is also known as the

• ozone hole

• ozone gap

• ozone space

• ozone void

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