Environmental Issues Review

What would be a cost of drilling for oil in Antartica?

• Transporting the oil

• Risk of oil spills

• Potential harm to sea animals

• All are correct

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Which option is not a factor of pollution?

• Dancing in the streets

• waste

• chemicals

• noise

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

The contamination of Earth's land, water, or air is called

• evaporation

• pollution

• environmental science

• sanitation

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

Which sentence is true about the human population?

• It was 6 billion in 2000.

• It grew rapidly until 1650.

• It was 1 billion in 1000 A. D.

• It grew slowly until 1950.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Human population increased and the death rate decreased.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

As a population grows, the demand for resources

• stay the same

• decreases

• increases

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Costs and benefits are measured only in terms of money.

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

Which factor contributed to the rapid growth of the population?

• births

• improvements in medicine

• deaths

• civilization

The study of natural processes that occur in the environment and how humans can affect them is called

• biogeography

• ecology

• environmental science

• biology

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Which answer is not a type of environmental issue

• pollution

• resources use

• population growth

• death rate

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4