U8L3E2: Reducing Impacts on Land

Urbanization is

• the process by which human activity and natural process damage land to the point that it can no longer support the local ecosystem.

• replacing forests, fields, and grasslands with houses, roads, schools and shopping area.

• the growth of urban areas caused by people moving into cities

• The process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another

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When wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one area to another it is called

• Erosion

• Desertification

• Deforestation

• Urbanization

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This image is an example of what type of land degradation

• Desertification

• Deforestation

• Urban Sprawl

• Urbanization

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This image is an example of what type of land degradation

• Desertification

• Deforestation

• Urbanization

• Urban Sprawl

Soil erosion can increase when humans remove trees and other vegetation from an area. What is this process called?

• Decomposition

• Conservation

• Deforestation

• Urbanization

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Choose the following that describes why land is important to humans . (Choose all that apply)

• Fossil Fuels for energy

• Nutrients for plants to grow

• Buildings

• Minerals for Construction

Where is pollution found on the earth?
 
 
  

• only in the air 
• only on the land 
• only in the water 
• on land, in the air, and in the water 

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Which of the following are causes of land pollution?

• Mining

• Increase in greenhouse gases

• Pesticides

• Landfills

• Human sewage

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What are the effects of deforestation ?

• loss of habitat
• increased green house gasses 
• soil erosion and flooding
• all of the above

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Does deforestation contribute to global warming?

• No, trees aren't that important
• Sometimes because only the cutting down of Maple trees contributes to global warming
• No, deforestation adds methane to the atmosphere, which makes the Earth cooler
• Yes; less trees means less CO2 is turned into oxygen.

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