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Long and Short term Environmental changes

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How long do the effects of a long term change last?

a)

2 years

b)

3 days

c)

1 hour

d)

5 years or more

2.

How long does a short term change's effects last?

a)

5 years or more

b)

5 years

c)

5 years or less

d)

a lifetime

3.

What is an example of a long term effect?

a)

smog

b)

deforestation

c)

hurricanes

d)

driught

4.

Which is not an example of a long term effect?

a)

Volcanic eruptions

b)

Radioactive waste pollution

c)

Climate change

d)

urbanization

5.

Which is not an effect of logging and urbanization?

a)

flooding

b)

landslides

c)

deforestation

d)

rain

6.

Human activity causes lots of environmental changes

a)

True

b)

False

7.

What is Natural Selection?

a)

the process through which animals level up before they die

b)

The process through which animals with weaker traits die, leaving the stronger ones to reproduce.

c)

the process through which giraffes get longer necks

8.

What is succession?

a)

a more advanced species slowly replaces others usually because of an environmental change

b)

one species eats all others

c)

the process by which a state leaves the United States

d)

environmental sameness

9.

What kind of environmental change is succession?

a)

Long term

b)

Short term

c)

it's not an environmental change

10.

Humans can cause environmental changes.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Why is natural selection not important?

a)

It increases survival rate of that species

b)

It reduces weaker traits

c)

It allows advantageous traits to be more widespread

d)

It helps the environment by causing flooding