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WorksheetsEarth and Human Activity Vocab Review
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 6mins
Natural processes or phenomena that may cause widespread injury, death, and property damage.
Natural Resource
Natural Hazard
Natural Disaster
Widespread injury, death, and property damage caused by a natural hazard.
Natural Hazard
Natural Resource
Natural Disaster
Which of the following is a "geologic hazard?"
Tornado
Hurricane
Earthquake
Drought
Which of the following is a "weather related hazard"?
Volcano
Tornado
Earthquake
Tsunami
To reduce the severity or impact of something.
Recycle
Natural Disaster
Extinct
Mitigate
Any natural material or energy source used by humans; such as water, petroleum, minerals, forests and animals.
Natural Resource
Natural Hazard
Natural Disaster
Pollution
The warming of the surface and lower atmosphere of the Earth that occurs when water vapor, carbon dioxide, and other gases absorb and reradiate energy.
Global warming
Heating
Greenhouse Effect
Atmospheric Warming
A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rat at which it is consumed.
Natural Resource
Renewable Resource
Nonrenewable Resource
Nonregenerative Resource
A resource that is formed at a rate that is much slower than the rate at which the resource is consumed.
Natural Resource
Renewable Resource
Nonrenewable Resource
An unwanted change in the environment caused by substances or forms of energy.
Natural Hazard
Pollution
Population
Pollution that comes from a specific site.
Pollution
Nonpoint-source pollution
Point-source Pollution
Pollution that comes from many sources rather than from a specific site.
Pollution
Point-source pollution
Nonpoint-source pollution
A species that has died out completely.
Extinct
Endangered
Critically Endangered
Fossil
The place where an organism usually lives.
Den
Dwelling
Habitat
Outside
The ruin or alteration of a place inhabited by an ecological community.
Eviction
Extinction
Habitat
Habitat Destruction
The average consumption per person within a population.
Per capita consumption.
Ration
Allowance
A group of organisms of the same species that live in the same geographical area.
People
Community
Population
