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WorksheetsESU 2 #4 Tech Check
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
What are two benefits of soil?
Provides a habitat for organisms and stores water and nutrients
Produces oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide
Generates electricity and provides minerals
Supports plant growth and creates fossil fuels
What is a natural resource?
A man-made material used by people
A natural material that is used by people
A synthetic resource created in laboratories
A resource that cannot be used by humans
What is a non-renewable resource?
A resource that can be replaced as quickly as it is used
A natural resource that is used much faster than it can be replaced
A resource that is never used by humans
A resource that is always available
What is a renewable resource?
A resource that can never be replaced
A natural resource that can be replaced as quickly as the resource is used
A resource that is used faster than it can be replaced
A resource that is not used by people
What is the process of protecting the environment from harmful activities called?
Urbanization
Land degradation
Preservation
Drought
What term describes an increase in the proportion of a population living in urban areas rather than in rural areas?
Preservation
Urbanization
Land degradation
Dust Bowl
What is the process of damaging land through human activity or natural processes known as?
Urbanization
Preservation
Land degradation
Drought
What was the Dust Bowl?
A period of heavy rainfall
A series of volcanic eruptions
A period of severe dust storms in the 1930s
A large-scale deforestation event
What is a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall leading to a shortage of water called?
Urbanization
Drought
Preservation
Dust Bowl
What is the wise use and preservation of natural resources called?
Deforestation
Stewardship
Conservation
Desenification
What term describes the careful and responsible management of a resource?
Soil conservation
Stewardship
Deforestation
Desenification
What is the removal of trees and other vegetation from an area known as?
Conservation
Desenification
Deforestation
Soil conservation
What process makes areas more desert-like due to human activities or climatic changes?
Stewardship
Desertification
Soil conservation
Conservation
What is a combination of farming practices used to protect the soil from degradation called?
Deforestation
Desenification
Soil conservation
Stewardship
