Vocab
True or False: Trees are a natural resource.
What is true?
This is a mixture of decayed organic material, bacteria, and other organisms used as a natural fertilizer.
What is compost?
Finding another use for an item instead of throwing it away is called this.
What is reusing?
This is how plants and animals are affected by a growing human population.
What is less habitats or less land for plants and animals to live?
Explain TWO reasons why forests are important AND identify TWO possible negative impacts of deforestation.
Negative impacts: 1. loss of animal habitats 2. more carbon dioxide in the air 3. less trees 4. soil erosion
This is where trash is buried.
What is a landfill?
Motor oil and batteries are an example of this.
What is hazardous waste?
Limiting the amount of products made from natural resources is known as this.
What is reducing?
A new law requires people to recycle paper, which would save trees and help the air because of this.
Explain the effect of trash disposal on Earth's systems.
Biosphere: harms living things
Geosphere: litters/poisons land, takes away space for landfills
Hydrosphere: pollutes water
Atmosphere: pollutes air
The contamination of the environment with substances that are harmful to living things is called this.
What is pollution?
This is the opposite of deforestation.
What is reforestation?
This is a green space near your home.
What is the woods behind my house?
or What is the park?
This is a reason pesticides used in agriculture is harmful.
What is runoff can seep into groundwater? or What is pesticides can pollute drinking water? or What is pesticides can harm animals living in nearby water?
The development of land for houses and other buildings is known as this.
What is urbanization?
The careful use of Earth's materials to reduce damage to the environment is called this.
What is conservation?
This is a positive effect of recycling paper.
What is decrease deforestation?
or What is have more trees?
Changes in this affect more than just one organism because everything is connected.
What is biodiversity?
This is when the government requires companies to restore land disturbed by mining.
What is reclamation?
Composting has a positive impact on Earth because less food waste is put in to these large areas of garbage.
What are landfills?