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WorksheetsHuman Impacts Vocab Quiz
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 23mins
People use ___________ techniques in order to bring a supply of water to dry crops.
domestication
hierarchy
irrigation
division of labor
Agriculture is....
establishing a government with people at the top and people at the bottom
cultivating or planting the land, producing crops, and raising animals
sectioning off lands for different people to live in different places
Agriculture refers to
farming
searching for animal hides
hunting
gathering
Which isn't a trait of hunter-gatherer society?
egalitarian
foraged for food
they use agriculture
nomadic
What early humans were in the beginning, before agriculture
hunter-gatherers
farmers
ranchers
Until the industrial revolution, how did most families get the items they needed for daily life?
They made them by hand.
They bought them from factories.
They bought them on the Internet.
They bought them from stores.
Sustainable Development is that development which satisfies the need of:
Present generation only
future generation only
both (a) & (b)
none of these
An acronym that stands for "not in my backyard"; attitude of opposing changes near one's home
community policing
NIMBY
conservation
infrastructure
What does NIMBY mean?
No I mean yesterday
Not Increasing Boson Yields
No I Meant it Yesterday
Not In My Back Yard
human beings in general
number of people in the world
A measurement of people for a specific area
All the inhabitants of a particular area
The growth of cities is called ________.
Suburbanization
Industrialization
Urbanization
The statistical characterization of human populations (sometimes broken down by age/gender/income/etc)
Democracy
Demonstrations
Rural
Demographics
Conservation means...
Negatively effecting the environment
The careful use of natural resources
Pollution
Hurting ecosystems
Green revolution refers to...
Use of Green manure
Grow more crops
High yielding varieties of plants that could feed more people
Green vegetation
What did the ‘Green Revolution’ actually revolutionize?
Business Culture
Tissue Culture
Agriculture
Tradition and culture
The change from good, growable land to desert
deforestation
desertification
drought
water pollution
Define Dust Bowl.
area of the Midwest (southern plains) during the 1930's because of a severe drought.
area of the Southeast during the 1920's because of terrible dust storms.
area from Canada to Texas in the 1930's with severe storms.
What is the art and science of managing forests to maintain or improve the quality and quantity of trees?
Forestry
Wildlife
Forest Care
Forester
Clearcutting is
A timber harvesting practice where all trees larger than 20 feet tall are cut harvested.
When logging companies plant new saplings in an area bigger than 1 hectare.
A timber harvesting practice where all of the trees in a given area are harvested at the same time.
When forestry services clear out the underbrush in a given area.
The temporary or permanent removal of large expanses of forest for agriculture, settlements, or other uses
rangeland
Deforestation
Biodiversity
What is bycatch?
Catching other sea life than what you were aiming to catch
Fish caught as the ships go by
Fish that escapes out of nets
Fish caught at the very end of the fishing season
What is a "driftnet"?
Large fishing gill nets that float close to the surface of the water
cast net
medium fishing net that sit on the bottom
none of the above
Burning fossil fuels cause ________ that cause pollution.
temperature decrease
headaches
emissions
natural pollution
What does the E in EPA stand for?
Eco
Ecosystem
Environmental
Early
What does the P in EPA stand for?
Privacy
Protection
Public
Physical
The Clean Water Act is a _______________ law in the United States that regulates water pollution.
Local
State
Federal
Interstellar
What positive impact does ozone in the stratosphere have?
absorbs alpha wave radiation
absorbs infrared radiation
absorbs gamma radiation
absorbs ultraviolet radiation
Under the Clean Air Act, what agency was charged with enforcing emission standards for new source of air pollution?
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
U.S. Department of Justice
Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Gelological Survey
Waste water is best described as:
Water that you can cook with.
Water that goes down your drain or toilet.
Water in a local pond.
River water.
A process to remove the major contaminants from used or sewage water and convert it into a reusable one to recharge the aquifer
water restoration process
wastewater treatment process
disinfection and purification process
What is water scarcity?
when there is not enough water to meet our needs
when something is fit for drinking
when there is enough water but humans can't access clean water because of financial (money) needs
when there is too much water which flood crops
This haze that occurs where there are cities with large amounts of emission from factories and automobiles
Temperature Smog
Industrial Smog
Photochemical Smog
Acid Deposition
Chlorofluorocarbons is represented by the abbreviation _________________.
CFC
ChFC
Chl
hydrocarbons
What are considered "the commons"
Common house hold items like knifes, spoons, and forks.
A renewable resource owned by no one and available for use by anyone at little or no charge
A field where college students can sit outside in between classes
The "Tragedy of The Commons" is...
An economic issue where people do not have enough money to buy basic needs so they resort to stealing and breaking the law.
A type of play where someone tragically dies or gets killed.
Economic issue where individuals tend to take advantage of the natural resource and it becomes unavailable for everyone.
Sustainability
The process of maintaining resources so they are not depleted or permanently damaged.
The ability to read minds
The ability to use resources until they are used up
