Earth's Resources
We also use ____ for farming, cleaning and bathing.
What is freshwater?
What is the conversion of wild animals into trained, submissive, and gentle animals?
What is domestication?
We can negatively impact the nonliving parts of the environment as well as the living parts of the environment. True or False?
True
Burning fossil fuels produces harmful substances known as _____.
What are pollutants?
Pollutants can be naturally occurring or synthetic (man-made). True or False?
What is true?
Humans need _____ and plants need _____ to breath.
What are oxygen and carbon dioxide?
_____ is the cultivation of plants and animals for food, medicine and other products.
What is agriculture?
What harms the environment because pollutants have a negative effect on air, water and other natural resources?
What is pollution?
Water pollution is pollution of what sphere?
What is the hydrosphere?
Pollutants that enter the hydrosphere cycle around Earth through what?
What is the Water Cycle?
Humans rely on Earth’s _______ (coal, oil and natural gas) as a major source of energy.
What are fossils fuels?
__________ is the extraction of minerals, metals and other natural resources from Earth’s ground.
What is mining?
Humans cut down trees to harvest timber for the construction of homes. In the process, humans destroy native plants and the habitats of many organisms. What is this considered?
What is habitat destruction?
Solid waste or _______ is made of everyday items that are discarded by humans
What is garbage?
Much of solid waste is buried at sites known as __________.
What are landfills?
Many ______ produce substances that we use as medicine.
What are plants?
_________involves the mass production of synthetic or man-made products from natural resources
What is manufacturing?
What is resource depletion?
What is humans are consuming/using many resources (renewable and nonrenewable) faster than they can be replenished?
What are the 3 major sources of land pollution?
What are landfills, pesticides, and nuclear waste?
Land pollution is pollution of what sphere? & Air pollution is pollution of what other sphere?
What are geosphere & atmosphere?
What can be regenerated through biological or chemical processes?
What is renewable resources?
The process of converting natural habitats into cities is called __________
What is urbanization?
Humans can harvest plant and animal products to such a great extent (a lot and very quickly) that eventually there can be a lose of, what?
What is species?
What are the 3 major sources of water pollution?
What are waste, chemicals, and heat?
What is a way we can conserve water?
Fixing a leaky faucet.