Human Impact on Environment

The total amount of healthy ecosystems needed to both provide you with the resources for you to use and to absorb the wastes that you generate is called

• ecological footprint

• global warming

• deforestation

• habitat fragmentation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Destruction of forests for lumber, farming or other uses

• deforestation

• habitat fragmentation

• invasive species

• ozone layer

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The destruction of the place an organism lives (usually due to human activities)

• pollutant

• smog

• habitat loss

• sustainable development

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Any non-native species whose introduction causes, or is likely to cause, economic harm, environmental harm, or harm to human health.

• ozone layer

• invasive species

• biological magnification

• renewable resource

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Any harmful material released into the biosphere.

• sustainable development

• pollutant

• nonrenewable resources

• smog

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

Upper atmosphere layer in which ozone gas is relatively concentrated; protects life on Earth from harmful ultraviolet rays in sunlight.

• ozone layer

• biological magnification

• renewable resource

• resilience

Strategy for using natural resources without depleting them and for providing human needs without causing long-term environmental harm

• nonrenewable resources

• ecological footprint

• global warming

• sustainable development

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Resource that can be produced or replaced as easily as it is used

• renewable resource

• nonrenewable resource

• resilience

• restitution

Resource that cannot be replaced by natural processes within a reasonable amount of time

• renewable resource

• nonrenewable resource

• resilience

• restitution

Making new fuels from corn, grasses, and other organic material

• fossil fuels

• biomass

• renewable resources

• nuclear energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2