Deforestation

Which of these is one cause of deforestation?

• Urbanization
• Buying a chirstmas tree during the holidays
• Overbreeding birds in the wild
• Cutting down the tree in your backyard

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

What is urbanization?

• Process of making an aread more city-like
• Process of making an area more country-like
• Tearing down a large shopping mall
• Moving to an urban area

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

What is deforestation?

• Clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale
• Eating too much vegetables
• Going to a forest and pulling weeds
• Clearing the five trees in my backyard

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Deforestation is caused by

• agriculture activities
• snakes
• banks
• schools

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

How much forest is lost every minute?

• 20 football fields
• 20 feet
• 20 centimenters
• 20 inches

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Deforestation has an affect on the water cycle

• true
• false

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Deforestation causes an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide

• true

• false

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

what is the leading cause of deforestation?

• Diseases 
• Housing market
• Agriculture and Farming
• Paper mill

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What does deforestation effect?

• Plants and animals
• Our biosphere
• Humans
• All of the above

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What are the effects of deforestation ?

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4