Land natural resources.

What are some reasons deforestation occurs?

• clearing land for agriculture, ranching, and mining
• just wanting to destroy things
• Population moving from rural areas to cities
• to make room for infrastructure

What are examples of natural resources?

• water

• trees

• soil

• all of the above

Carbon is released into the atmosphere through all of the following ways except:

• respiration
• cow flatulence
• photosynthesis
• all of the above

Soil erosion can increase when humans remove trees and other vegetation from an area. What is this process called?

• Decomposition

• Conservation

• Deforestation

• Urbanization

This image is an example of what type of land degradation

• Desertification

• Deforestation

• Urban Sprawl

• Urbanization

Increase in which gas is primarily responsible for increased global warming?

• Carbon dioxide
• Water vapor
• Methane
• Nitric oxides

How does planting trees help the environment?

• It makes leaves fall everywhere for nutrients.

• It helps reduce air pollution.

• It provides homes for wildlife like bugs and birds.

• It reduces the risk of wildfires.

Which of these is not a natural resource?

• ocean

• lake

• stream

• pool

What is the most dramatic result of deforestation?

• land is no longer green and full of life
• pictures from space show deforestation
• loss of habitat for approximately 70% of the worlds species
• people can't explore rainforests

When wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one area to another it is called

• Erosion

• Desertification

• Deforestation

• Urbanization