ENV - Unit 4.2: Human Impact on Land

The area inside the city is called ______.

• urban

• suburban

• rural

The natural environment exploited by humans leads to.............

• Change in habitat

• Change in ecosystem

• Environmental degradation

• Changes in environment

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Desertification refers to

• increasing forest cover

• increase in water table

• increase in agricultural land

• increase in dry areas of land

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

This image is an example of what type of land degradation

• Desertification

• Deforestation

• Urban Sprawl

• Urbanization

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Which of the following are causes of land pollution?

• Mining

• Increase in greenhouse gases

• Pesticides

• Landfills

• Human sewage

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

What are the effects of deforestation ?

• loss of habitat
• increased green house gasses 
• soil erosion and flooding
• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Does deforestation contribute to global warming?

• No, trees aren't that important
• Sometimes because only the cutting down of Maple trees contributes to global warming
• No, deforestation adds methane to the atmosphere, which makes the Earth cooler
• Yes; less trees means less CO2 is turned into oxygen.

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

NGSS.HS-LS2-5

To reduce pollution in the environment, people should ______________ materials.

• recycle
• pollute
• throw away
• clean

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

A farmer plants corn in a field one year, cotton in the same field the following year, and then corn again. This farmer is practicing ---

• subsistence agriculture

• commercial farming

• crop rotation

• slash-and-burn agriculture

• shifting cultivation

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The opposite of clear-cutting and selective cutting, this involves the replanting of trees.

• ecosystem services
• reforestation
• overgrazing