Human Impact
The contamination of earth’s land, water, or air.
Pollution
Jackie lives in a newly-built housing development. Which statement best explains why most of the residents are having problems with insects and mice in their homes?
Building houses has taken away habitats and the animals have not yet relocated.
When the air is polluted, a mixture of harmful gaseous compounds are released into the atmosphere and acid rain can form as a result. True or False
True
I am 12 years old is an example of....
Absolute dating
I touch a hot pot and get burned. What type of heat transfer is that?
Conduction
What is it called when you cut down all of the trees?
Deforestation
Tropical rainforests are important to the entire world because they produce oxygen and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. They also provide a habitat for organisms that do not live anywhere else. One concern about the environment is the destruction of rainforests because people want to use the land for other purposes. This is known as:
Deforestation
Which spheres are directly affected when people are riding bikes, wearing masks, in fog/smoke?
Atmosphere and biosphere
The history of Earth according to fossils
Fossil record
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather is short term and climate is long term
Which spheres interact when forest fires are burning?
Atmosphere, biosphere and geosphere
The introduction of wastes to an environment, such as sewage and chemicals, that can damage organisms is
What is desertification?
the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture
I am older than my brother is an example of.....
Relative dating
Heat always flows from what to what?
What is urbanization?
Refers to the growing number of people that live in urban (cities) areas.
Cutting down trees without replanting the area results in no roots to hold the soil together. Possible results of deforestation are
Erosion and Desertification
One of the problems of endangered rivers results from the large number of wastewater overflow sites that are found along the course of the river. These wastewater overflow sites are a direct result of
Where are the oldest layers of rock located
On the bottom
When two plates collide into each other (or crash) what type of boundary is this?
Convergent
What type of heat transfer occurs when you get a sunburn? Sunlight is a type of Electromagnetic (?) that travels in waves!
Radiation
A town recently built a factory near a lake. Which of the following could cause a decrease in water quality?
Dumping toxic chemical waste into the streams and the lake.
What effect to Earth's spheres is represented in a picture of a bird sitting in a lake that has garbage floating in it?
Land Pollution
Nikki was putting together a presentation about the geologic time scale to share in class. What is the purpose of the geologic time scale?
to organize and sequence events in the history of Earth and to serve as a model for a vast amount of time covered
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
List the layers of the atmosphere from the one closest to us (the one we are in) to the farthest from us.
Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere