Human Impact on Natural Resources
This is any natural material used by humans, such as air, soil, minerals, petroleum, plants, and animals.
What is Natural Resources
the removal of trees and other vegetation from an area is called ___________
What is deforestation
Groundwater can only become polluted from sources that are already underground. True/False
What is false?
Which is the most widely used energy source in the United States?
What is petroleum?
What does “www” stand for in a website browser?
What is the World Wide Web?
This is a non renewable resource that is formed of the buried remains of plants and animals that lived long ago.
What are fossil fuels?
Businesses conduct mining activites to gather which resource?
What is coal?
Humans depend on ___________ for drinking, cooking, and washing. The irrigation of crops also requires freshwater.
What is water?
__________ is the ability to do work.
What geometric shape is generally used for stop signs?
What is an octagon?
The number of organisms that an environment can support is its:
What is carrying capacity?
Chemicals applied to farm fields to control weeds, insects, and fungi are called:
What is Pesticides?
Water-pollution sources that originate from a single point of origin are called:
What is point source pollution?
Which describes the amount of work produced compared to the amount of energy used?
What is energy efficiency?
Which animal can be seen on the Porsche logo?
What is a horse?
Solar energy is an example of what type of resource
What is renewable resource
Which process uses organisms to clean up or break down toxic wastes?
What is bioremediation?
What are two common types of ocean pollutants?
What are plastic and mercury/
The simultaneous production of two usable forms of energy is called ______________.
What is cogeneration?
What is the rarest M&M color?
What is brown?
Resources that organisms require are air, water, food and _________.
What is shelter?
Each person in the United States generates an average of 2.0 kg of solid waste per day. Much of it is buried in this.
What is landfill?
Plastics break down into smaller pieces called:
What is microplastic?
Which involves the global management of Earth’s natural resources to meet current and future energy needs?
What is sustainable energy?
What kind of car does Mrs. Li drive?
What is a Volkswagon GTI?