Human Impact on the Environment Stemscopes

Humans can causes changes to the environment that are...

• positive

• negative

• positive or negative

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What negative effect(s) can occur when trees are removed from an ecosystem?

• animal habitats are lost

• the amount of oxygen decreases

• soil erosion occurs more quickly

• all of these

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_________ is a valuable natural resource that is burned for fuel and used in products such as plastic.

• aluminum

• water

• wood

• oil

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One way that people can help underwater coral ecosystems is...

• building dams to change the flow of water

• placing large structures in the water

• encouraging people to fish more often

• creating laws against swimming

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Invasive species are ______ to an ecosystem.

• native

• beneficial

• harmful

• all of these

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Invasive species often take over ecosystems because...

• they are aggressive

• they have few predators

• they tend to be intelligent

• they don't need much food

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Severe ________ played an important part in the creation of the Dust Bowl.

• droughts
• rainfall
• tornados
• thunderstorms

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When did the Dust Bowl take place?

• 1920's
• 1930's
• 1940's
• 1950's

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Poor farming practices (techniques) caused soil __________.

• preservation
• erosion
• retention
• production

In the Deepwater Horizon incident, the oil that entered the ecosystem came from

• a tanker ship

• the drilling platform

• an underwater earthquake

• underneath the ocean floor

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