Natural Resources and Human Impact

Which of the following affects the availability of mineral resources?

• Volcanic Activity

• Plate tectonics

• Weathering and erosion

• All of these

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What is one way humans can decrease carbon emissions?

• Grow food locally so it doesn't have to be trucked from California.

• Plant a tree seed.

• Burning wood in their fire place instead of natural gas.

• Work out 3-5 times per week.

Which of the following is renewable

• Petroleum

• Natural Gas

• Coal

• Hydroelectric

Fossil fuels are classified as nonrenewable because they.......

• require expensive equipment

• take millions of years to replace

• can be found all over 

• provide all the energy we use

Which of the following is contributing to an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?

• deforestation

• photosynthesis

• oceans

• all of the above

Human activity has been identified as contributing to climate change, through heating up the earth by

• Using all the freshwater on earth

• Raising CO2 levels in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution

• Polluting the earth with too much plastic

• Cohesion

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What are fossil fuels

• Rocks that contain only plant remains.

• Pieces of rocks that have been compacted

• Rocks that contain only animal remains

• Natural fuels that are made up by burial of living organisms under deep down the earth for over a long period of time, are called fossil fuel

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What are fossil fuels?

• Dinosaur bones

• Resources made from once living organisms 

• Combination of different rocks

• Gas Stations

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Drilling and transporting fossil fuels causes damage to natural habitats and can lead to land and water pollution. 

• True

• False

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Which of the following is a renewable natural resource?

• Coal

• Natural Gas

• Wind Energy

• Nuclear Energy