Test Review Human Impacts on Environment

What does the Birth Rate indicate?

• The number of deaths per 1,000 people

• The number of births in a year for every 1,000 people in a population

• The growth rate of plants

• The rate of natural disasters

What is Exponential Growth?

• A method of conservation

• A decrease in population size

• A stable population growth pattern

• A rapidly growing population growth pattern

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What is considered a Nonrenewable Resource?

• Solar Energy

• Water

• Trees

• Fossil Fuels

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What does the term 'Sustainability' refer to?

• Reduction of natural resources

• Growth of urban areas

• The process of making new products from used materials

• Using resources at a rate that they can be replaced or recycled

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What is the main cause of Acid Rain?

• Landfills

• Overfishing

• Deforestation

• Release of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide

What does the Ozone Layer protect us from?

• UV radiation

• Global warming

• Air pollution

• Acid rain

What is a Renewable Resource?

• Wind

• Oil

• Natural gas

• Coal

What is the main effect of Thermal Pollution?

• Decrease in air quality

• Increase in sea levels

• Decrease in water quality and harm to aquatic life

• Increase in forest fires

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What is deforestation?

• Clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale

• Eating too much vegetables

• Going to a forest and pulling grasses

• Clearing the five trees in my backyard

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

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What are the effects of deforestation ?

• animals and other organisms will lost their habitats

• increased green house gasses 

• soil erosion and flooding

• all of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

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