TEK 14A Physical Environment

The _____________ includes land, air, water, plants and animals, buildings and other infrastructure, and all of the natural resources that provide our basic needs

• basic environment

• physical environment

• Human environment

• survival environment

__________- Undoing/Destroying the Forests

• global warming

• area removal

• Deforestation

• removal of trees

​ (a)   - the action of hurting the physical and human environment with MAN-MADE waste/trash.​

• POLLUTION
• Trash
• contamination

What challenges to the physical environment caused New York to these actions? For example: (Select 3)

2. 3. . Added nearly one million trees and six million square feet of reflective rooftop in the city landscape.

• Racism & Discrimination

• increased population growth

• Pollution

• Aging infrastructure

What is a coastal region

• the boundary between two countries on land

• the boundary between the ocean and the land.

What is one effect of population growth on the physical environment,

Cuál es un efecto del crecimiento demográfico sobre el entorno físico?

• damage to coastal regions

• over population in the great plains

What was the main reason the federal government built this dam?

• to provide resources to a growing population

• to limit resources to a declining population

• to increase tourism

• to prevent the Colorado River from drying up

​ (a)   is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona.​

• Hoover Dam
• Nevada Dam
• Colorado Levee

The legislation, which President Johnson signed into law the next day, outlawed literacy test.

• 12th Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

What was one result of immigration to the northeastern United States during the early 20th century (Select Two)

• labor shortages occurred

• Pollution, waste & illness increased

• cities became more densely populated

• people became scarce