Environmental Problems and Solutions Vocabulary Practice Quiz

Environment

• Our surroundings; includes both living and non-living aspects.

• Issues that affect the health of the environment.

• The contamination of the environment.

• Increase in temperature of atmosphere due to pollution.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Environmental Problems

• Our surroundings; includes both living and non-living aspects.

• Issues that affect the health of the environment.

• The contamination of the environment.

• Increase in temperature of atmosphere due to pollution.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

Pollution

• Our surroundings; includes both living and non-living aspects.

• Issues that affect the health of the environment.

• The contamination of the environment.

• Increase in temperature of atmosphere due to pollution.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Global Warming

• Our surroundings; includes both living and non-living aspects.

• Issues that affect the health of the environment.

• The contamination of the environment.

• Increase in temperature of atmosphere due to pollution.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

Biological Extinction

• Occurs when a living species completely dies out.

• The elimination of the “home” of a living thing.

• Things from the natural environment we use.

• Resources that can be replaced by the natural environment;

  examples include wind, water, trees, and solar energy.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Habitat Loss

• Occurs when a living species completely dies out.

• The elimination of the “home” of a living thing.

• Things from the natural environment we use.

• Resources that can be replaced by the natural environment;

  examples include wind, water, trees, and solar energy.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Natural Resources

• Occurs when a living species completely dies out.

• The elimination of the “home” of a living thing.

• Things from the natural environment we use.

• Resources that can be replaced by the natural environment;

  examples include wind, water, trees, and solar energy.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Renewable Natural

Resources

• Occurs when a living species completely dies out.

• The elimination of the “home” of a living thing.

• Things from the natural environment we use.

• Resources that can be replaced by the natural environment;

  examples include wind, water, trees, and solar energy.

Nonrenewable

Natural Resources

• Resources that cannot be replaced by nature; examples

  include oil and minerals.

• The elimination of the “home” of a living thing.

• The contamination of the environment.

• Issues that affect the health of the environment.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Sustainability

• The act of carefully using and caring for resources so they are

  available for the long term.

• The elimination of the “home” of a living thing.

• The contamination of the environment.

• Issues that affect the health of the environment.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5