Human Impact on the Environment Review

What is the process of a species disappearing called?

• Extinction

• Population

• Habitat

• Biosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What is a group of interacting individuals of the same species called?

• Population

• Species

• Habitat

• Biosphere

What is the sum of all living matter on Earth called?

• Population

• Species

• Biosphere

• Habitat

What is the place where an organism naturally lives and grows called?

• Population

• Species

• Habitat

• Biosphere

What is group of living things that have similar genes capable of reproducing?

• Natural Habitat

• Population

• Species

• Extinction

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

What are three possible sources of groundwater contamination caused by human activity?

• Overfishing, dumping pollutants, and artificial reefs

• Runoff, dumping pollutants, and artificial reefs

• Overfishing, runoff, and dumping pollutants

• Artificial reefs, dumping pollutants, and overfishing

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

When ______________________ are picked up by runoff, the effects can be harmful because the water that living organisms depend on becomes _______________________.

• polluted, contaminants

• habitats, extinction

• natural resource, positive

• contaminates, polluted

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Human activities, such as overfishing and dumping pollutants into the ocean, can have a great impact, even causing ________________ of some marine life.

• extinction

• increase

• contaminants

• polluted

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Artificial reefs have a(n) _______________ impact on the _____________ because they help create underwater ecosystems.

• decrease, natural resources

• positive, environment

• positive, habitats

• decrease, polluted

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Typically, as human populations increase, the negative impacts on Earth _____________.

• decreases

• contaminants

• increases

• environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4