Changes in the Environment

Waste that harms the air, water, or land

• Recycle

• Environment

• Resources

• Pollution

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Moving water carries rocks and soil from one place to another

• Drought

• Flood

• Earthquake

• Erosion

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A long time with little to no rain; very dry

• Flood

• Erosion

• Pollution

• Drought

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How do animals change the environment?

• They can step on or eat plants.

• They don't change the environment.

• They can move plants or trees to build dams in rivers.

• They can dig holes in the ground.

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The area where we live is

• our weather

• our environment

• our population

• our home

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What kind of environment change is this?

b

Long term

Short term

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What led to this environmental change?

• Human Activity

• Natural Process

• Lion with big teeth

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Which is NOT an example of a natural environmental change?

• a beaver dam

• a hurricane

• a volcanic eruption

• a housing development

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A forest's trees are being cut down. How are the organisms that live there being harmed?

• the organism population increases

• the organism habitat will increase

• the organism population will remain the same

• the organism habitat will decrease

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Alligators live in wetlands where there is lots of water. What would happen if the wetlands were drained to build houses?

• The alligators would move somewhere else.

• The alligators would adapt to a life without water.

• There would be no more alligators in the world.

• The alligators would need to find more food to eat.

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