7th Grade

A rate of change that increases more and more rapidly over time.

• Population

• Birth Rate

• Exponential Growth

• Death Rate

Contamination of Earth's land, water, and air due to human impact is called?

• Pollution

• Bad Nature

• Population Growth

• Earth's Systems

What was the reason for the increase in population since the 1800s?

• More births allowed people to work more on their land and have more food to eat.

• Agriculture began to improve, and farmers could use antibiotics, fertilizers, and pesticides on their crops

• The Industrial Revolution improved the availability of food and clean water to more people through technology.

• The birth rate increased because people could travel from place to place to find food.

What is one consequence of rapid human population growth on the environment?

• Increase in biodiversity
• Depletion of natural resources
• Decrease in greenhouse gases
• Decrease in pollution

Which of the following natural resources are nonrenewable?

• Water
• Animals
• Natural gas
• Wind

The people or animals living in a particular area.

• population

• species

• community

• consumer

The _____________ the human population, the ______________ the amount of resources being used.

• greater, greater

• greater, least

• least, greater

• least, least

The____ is all the water on Earth.

• biosphere
• geosphere
• atmosphere
• hydrosphere

Natural resources are distributed ____across the Earth.

• safely
• easily
• unequally
• underground

The air we breathe is part of the _____.

• biosphere
• atmosphere
• hydrosphere
• geosphere