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Earth and Human Activity Vocab Review

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Natural processes or phenomena that may cause widespread injury, death, and property damage.

a)

Natural Resource

b)

Natural Hazard

c)

Natural Disaster

2.

Widespread injury, death, and property damage caused by a natural hazard.

a)

Natural Hazard

b)

Natural Resource

c)

Natural Disaster

3.

Which of the following is a "geologic hazard?"

a)

Tornado

b)

Hurricane

c)

Earthquake

d)

Drought

4.

Which of the following is a "weather related hazard"?

a)

Volcano

b)

Tornado

c)

Earthquake

d)

Tsunami

5.

To reduce the severity or impact of something.

a)

Recycle

b)

Natural Disaster

c)

Extinct

d)

Mitigate

6.

Any natural material or energy source used by humans; such as water, petroleum, minerals, forests and animals.

a)

Natural Resource

b)

Natural Hazard

c)

Natural Disaster

d)

Pollution

7.

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.

a)

Global warming

b)

Heating

c)

Greenhouse Effect

d)

Atmospheric Warming

8.

A natural resource that can be replaced at the same rat at which it is consumed.

a)

Natural Resource

b)

Renewable Resource

c)

Nonrenewable Resource

d)

Nonregenerative Resource

9.

A resource that is formed at a rate that is much slower than the rate at which the resource is consumed.

a)

Natural Resource

b)

Renewable Resource

c)

Nonrenewable Resource

10.

An unwanted change in the environment caused by substances or forms of energy.

a)

Natural Hazard

b)

Pollution

c)

Population

11.

Pollution that comes from a specific site.

a)

Pollution

b)

Nonpoint-source pollution

c)

Point-source Pollution

12.

Pollution that comes from many sources rather than from a specific site.

a)

Pollution

b)

Point-source pollution

c)

Nonpoint-source pollution

13.

A species that has died out completely.

a)

Extinct

b)

Endangered

c)

Critically Endangered

d)

Fossil

14.

The place where an organism usually lives.

a)

Den

b)

Dwelling

c)

Habitat

d)

Outside

15.

The ruin or alteration of a place inhabited by an ecological community.

a)

Eviction

b)

Extinction

c)

Habitat

d)

Habitat Destruction

16.

The average consumption per person within a population.

a)

Per capita consumption.

b)

Ration

c)

Allowance

17.

A group of organisms of the same species that live in the same geographical area.

a)

People

b)

Community

c)

Population