Environmental Changes

How do the floods due to Hurricane Harvey Positively impact city of Houston?

• Fish will adapt to reproduce faster

• Many fish species will become extinct

• Many fish species will learn to escape fishing nets

• Fish will be caught more quickly with new fishing nets.

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It occurs when it does not rain for a long time. It forces people and animals to look for new places to live.

• fires

• flood

• drought

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________can be caused by a natural event like lightning, and also by people.

• Floods

• Forest Fires

• Droughts

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Which is one negative effect of fires?

• Fires clear space for new plants growth

• Pinecones open to let their seeds out

• Fires destroy trees and other plants as well as animal habitats

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Is when small pieces of rock are carried away by water and sometimes by wind.

• flood

• erosion

• drought

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How do beavers change the environment?

• they build mounds

• they release poison

• they build dams

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It causes rivers to rise higher and higher:

• erosion

• drought

• flood

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They caus flame, heat, smoke, and ash, as a result they can change ecosystems:

• erosion

• fire

• flood

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How do termites change ecosystems?

• building dams

• releasing poison

• building mounds

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One positive effect of _________ is that some pinecones only open after being heated.

• fires

• erosion

• drought

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