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ESU 2 #4 Tech Check

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are two benefits of soil?

a)

Provides a habitat for organisms and stores water and nutrients

b)

Produces oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide

c)

Generates electricity and provides minerals

d)

Supports plant growth and creates fossil fuels

2.

What is a natural resource?

a)

A man-made material used by people

b)

A natural material that is used by people

c)

A synthetic resource created in laboratories

d)

A resource that cannot be used by humans

3.

What is a non-renewable resource?

a)

A resource that can be replaced as quickly as it is used

b)

A natural resource that is used much faster than it can be replaced

c)

A resource that is never used by humans

d)

A resource that is always available

4.

What is a renewable resource?

a)

A resource that can never be replaced

b)

A natural resource that can be replaced as quickly as the resource is used

c)

A resource that is used faster than it can be replaced

d)

A resource that is not used by people

5.

What is the process of protecting the environment from harmful activities called?

a)

Urbanization

b)

Land degradation

c)

Preservation

d)

Drought

6.

What term describes an increase in the proportion of a population living in urban areas rather than in rural areas?

a)

Preservation

b)

Urbanization

c)

Land degradation

d)

Dust Bowl

7.

What is the process of damaging land through human activity or natural processes known as?

a)

Urbanization

b)

Preservation

c)

Land degradation

d)

Drought

8.

What was the Dust Bowl?

a)

A period of heavy rainfall

b)

A series of volcanic eruptions

c)

A period of severe dust storms in the 1930s

d)

A large-scale deforestation event

9.

What is a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall leading to a shortage of water called?

a)

Urbanization

b)

Drought

c)

Preservation

d)

Dust Bowl

10.

What is the wise use and preservation of natural resources called?

a)

Deforestation

b)

Stewardship

c)

Conservation

d)

Desenification

11.

What term describes the careful and responsible management of a resource?

a)

Soil conservation

b)

Stewardship

c)

Deforestation

d)

Desenification

12.

What is the removal of trees and other vegetation from an area known as?

a)

Conservation

b)

Desenification

c)

Deforestation

d)

Soil conservation

13.

What process makes areas more desert-like due to human activities or climatic changes?

a)

Stewardship

b)

Desertification

c)

Soil conservation

d)

Conservation

14.

What is a combination of farming practices used to protect the soil from degradation called?

a)

Deforestation

b)

Desenification

c)

Soil conservation

d)

Stewardship