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WorksheetsHuman Impact
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
This is the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet.
atmosphere
ocean
gasses
radiation
This is an incidental or secondary product made in the manufacture or synthesis of something else.
byproduct
product
water
gas
This is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, including carbon-neutral sources like sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.
renewable energy
oil
wood
energy
These are natural fuels such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms
fossil fuels
natural fuels
fossil gasses
methane
This is precipitation with acidic components, such as sulfuric or nitric acid that fall to the ground from the atmosphere in wet or dry forms. This can include rain, snow, fog, hail or even dust.
acid rain
field rain
acid snow
rainy acid
Any of the various gaseous compounds (such as carbon dioxide or methane) that absorb infrared radiation, trap heat in the atmosphere and contribute to the greenhouse effect. Examples: carbon dioxide and methane
greenhouse gasses
greenbuilding gasses
glasshouse gasses
outhouse gasses
This is the long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates. These changes have a broad range of observed effects that are synonymous with the term.
climate change/global warming
city warming
county warming
continental warming
This is a science concerned with the preservation of nature, specific species, or natural resources.
conservancies/conservation
pollution
smog
runoff
This is a method of plowing furrows that follow the curves of the land rather than straight up and down slopes. Furrows that run up and down a slope form a channel that can quickly carry away seeds and topsoil.
contour plowing
water plowing
snow plowing
none of these are valid options
This is the practice of planting different crops sequentially on the same plot of land to improve soil health, optimize nutrients in the soil, and combat pest and weed pressure.
crop-rotation
tire rotation
rotation
none of these are valid options
This is the clearing or thinning of forests by humans.
deforestation
lawn mowing
wildfires
none of these options are valid
This is achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense.
efficient
excellent
best
with speed
This is the production and discharge of something, especially gas or radiation.
emissions
conditions
submissions
restrictions
To use resources to the point where they can no longer be restored.
exhaust
store
burn
record
This is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes, and depressions. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, tropical storm, or meltwater from ice or snow flowing over ice sheets or snowfields.
flash flood
flooding
draught
blizzard
A natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.
fossil fuels
greenhouse gasses
electricity
wind
This is the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
greenhouse effect
global warming
global cooling
none of these options are valid
This is a form of electromagnetic radiation that comes from the sun.
ultraviolet radiation
sound
ozone
wind
These are resources that exist without the actions of humankind.
natural resources
natural racehorses
tress
sources
These are natural substances that are not replenished with the speed at which it is consumed.
Nonrenewable Resource (Nuclear, Natural)
renewable resources
resources
none of these options are valid
This is a colorless gas that absorbs ultraviolet radiation.
ozone
radiation
nitrogen
hydrogen
These are harmful materials to the environment. ... Pollutants can be natural, such as volcanic ash. They can also be created by human activity, such as trash or runoff produced by factories.
pollution
smog
swill
water
These are laws that protect the environment.
environmental regulations
guides
hopes
dreams
These are resources that can be used repeatedly and do not run out because it is naturally replaced. A renewable resource, essentially, has an endless supply such as solar energy, wind energy, and geothermal pressure.
renewable Resources
nonrenewable resources
resources
racehorses
That part of the precipitation, snowmelt, or irrigation water that appears in uncontrolled (not regulated by a dam upstream) surface streams, rivers, drains, or sewers.
run-off
floods
lakes
rivers
The results from large amounts of fossil fuel burning in an area and is caused by a mixture of smoke and sulfur dioxide
smog
smug
smile
smell
