7.4 Environmental Impacts Practice Quiz

If the human population continues to grow, Earth could

• generate more resources
• run out of some resources
• grow to support the increase in need

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Which situation is NOT an effect of deforestation?

• soil erosion
• ozone depletion
• loss of habitat

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Urban sprawl can

• decrease air pollution
• decrease runoff from the land
• increase loss of habitat and farmland

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Which process does NOT help protect the land?

• reclamation
• reforestation
• desertification

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What is the largest use of water in the United States?

• farming
• public supply
• producing electricity

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Which situation represents a nonpoint-source of water pollution?

• runoff from farms and cities
• runoff from a mine containing acids and metals
• oil leaks from large tankers in the ocean

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Smoke, dust, and dirt in the air are called

• smog
• particulate matter
• acid precipitation

Rain or snow with a pH of less than normal rainwater is

• smog
• particulate matter
• acid precipitation

The low-lying, hazy, brown cloud caused when nitrogen and carbon compounds from burning fossil fuels reacts with sunlight is called

• smog
• particulate matter
• acid precipitation

Eutrophication or overgrowth of plants in a pond or lake is caused when too much fertilizer washes into bodies of water as a result of

• acid precipitation
• runoff
• condensation

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