Earth Module 5: Human Impact on the Environment

Which describes a step people can take to help minimize the effects of using land for agriculture?

• use more land for farms

• increase the number of different pesticides used

• remove crops quickly to increase erosion of soil

• plant crops that attract many different kinds of insects

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

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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

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what is the leading cause of deforestation?

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

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What does deforestation effect?

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

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What are the effects of deforestation ?

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

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Why does cutting down trees increase global warming?

• trees soak up carbon dioxide
• trees provide shade which counteracts global warming
• trees absorbs the sun's energy without radiating back into the atmosphere
• trees drain greenhouse gases like methane from soil

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When you recycle, you have to consider 3 things.

• reduce

• reuse

• racoon

• recycle

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How can you stop water waste?

• taking shorter showers

• taking longer showers

• have the water hose on all day in the summer

• waste water

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The world will be a better place if we ____________.

• contaminate

• eat more fast food

• reduce, reuse, and recycle

• make it a mess

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