Unit 5: Ecosystems and Climate Change Review

Availability of natural resources helps determine a country’s wealth and power.

• True

• False

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A country’s standard of living has no relationship to its resource consumption.

• True

• False

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The United States has 6 percent of the world’s population and annually consumes about 30 percent of the mineral and energy resources.

• True

• False

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A mixture of gravel, sand, and crushed stone that accumulates on or near Earth's surface.

• aggregate

• soil

• bedrock

• flint

It takes up to 1000 years to produce just a few centimeters of soil.

• True

• False

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Unweathered inorganic material that lies underneath soil.

• aggregate

• soil

• bedrock

• flint

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The oceans help regulate climate and clean up pollutants.

• True

• False

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Perspiration from your skin is a heating mechanism that depends on water’s properties.

• True

• False

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Living things depend on water to act as a solvent to carry nutrients into cells and wastes out of cells.

• True

• False

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In the United States, freshwater is most likely to be scarce

• in large cities in the West.

• in rural areas in the East.

• along seacoasts.

• on the Great Plains.

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