Human Impact and Sustainability

Which is NOT a way to decrease your ecological footprint?

• Eating less meat and processed foods

• Walking or biking to school

• Turning off electricity and water when you're not using it. 

• Driving a large car around for fun.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Sustainability is making sure that the planet and its resources can continue to provide life.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

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Which of these problems could happen if we don't look after the resources we have?

• Loss of animal homes

• Climate change

• Increase in pollution

• All of the above

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Your Ecological or Carbon Footprint is the ratio of 

• the amount of resources you use to the amount of resources available

• how many people there are on earth to how much space we have on earth

• people to cars

• robots available to robots needed

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

What is a significant impact of human activity on the environment regarding energy use?

• Decreased reliance on fossil fuels

• Increased use of renewable resources

• Increased environmental degradation due to energy extraction and consumption

• Decreased greenhouse gas emissions

Answer explanation

The significant impact of human activity on the environment regarding energy use is increased environmental degradation due to energy extraction and consumption.

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

What is NOT a sustainable practice?

• recycling

• reducing

• reusing

• buying 

What has happened to resource consumption in the last several hundred years?

• it has remained at the same level

• it has decreased dramatically

• it has decreased only slightly

• it has increased dramatically

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

A human-centered view of our relationship with the environment is known as

• biocentrism

• environmentalism

• anthropocentrism

• ecocentrism

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

Which has the least negative impact on wildlife habitat?

• agriculture

• development

• deforestation

• recreation

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Which is NOT a way to decrease your ecological footprint?

• Eating less meat and processed foods

• Walking or biking to school

• Carpool to work

• Driving a Hummer (SUV) around for fun

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4