U4 R1 Vocab Review

Match the word to its correct meaning: affluent

• Not having enough food to maintain good health
• Having a lot of money; wealthy
• Dependent on something or someone
• The unfair use of someone or something for personal gain

Match the word to its correct meaning: deforestation

• The complex relationships among plants, animals, and their environment
• Causing much suffering or destruction
• The destruction of forests by cutting down or burning trees
• Able to be continued and maintained

Match the word to its correct meaning: negligible

• Small and unimportant
• Appearing; coming into existence
• The unfair use of someone or something for personal gain
• According to what seems to be true or likely

Match the word to its correct meaning: irreversible

• Opposite; in opposition
• Cannot be changed back to its original condition
• Able to produce a large amount of crops
• To stop something that is in progress

Match the word to its correct meaning: nutrients

• The substances that living things need to live and grow
• Something morally or legally required
• Very clear example used as a model
• The gases or substances created by energy use

Approximately 10,000 years ago, the human species had a _______ influence on the ecology of the planet as a whole.

• negligible
• catastrophic
• sustainable
• fertile

In the future, the damage to the world's ecology may be _______.

• sustainable
• negligible
• catastrophic
• fertile

The _______ top soil is eroded by rain because it is now without the protection offered by natural vegetation.

• sustainable
• fertile
• affluent
• emerging

As deforestation _______ the recycling of natural nutrients to the land, the land quickly becomes unsuitable for farming.

• interrupts
• counters
• exploits
• vanishes

The burning of forests releases large amounts of carbon dioxide _______ into the atmosphere.

• nutrients
• emissions
• obligations
• paradigms