Human Influence
The act of cutting trees and destroying habitats.
What is Deforestation?
Run-off
Water that is found underground in spaces and cracks in the earth.
groundwater
A harmful substance suspended in water.
What is Contaminant?
Which scientist would be most interested in water quality?
A. Meteorologist
B. Hydrologist
What is Hydrologist?
Factories release large amounts of what into the atmosphere?
What is Pollution?
What is Global Warming?
What is the gradual increase in Earth's average temperature due to rising levels of greenhouse gases?
T or F: Earths landscape is constantly changing.
What is "True"?
A measure of the condition of the water based on its characteristics.
Water Quality
What is one way to reduce pollution in the atmosphere?
What is recycle, walk, bike, public transportation?
What is the most common type of gas in the atmosphere that causes global warming?
What is Carbon Dioxide?
What is a Solute?
What is the substance that is dissolved in a solution?
What nutrient does each letter stand for on Fertilizer?
K-
P-
N-
What is:
K- Potassium
P- Phosphorus
N- Nitrogen
Nutrients
When Nitrogen is tested in fertilizer, what color does the soil turn?
What is Pink?
The two biggest ways humans impact earths land and water are through _____ and _____. (HINT: Think about the Boomtown scenarios building and fertilizer).
What are Contruction and Agriculture?
A substance that dissolves other substances.
Solvent
A family wants to build a home. Where would you advise them to build and why?
1. A cliff besides the oceans
2. A hillside in the mountains
What is 1.) because:
They should build on a hillside because it is not coming into constant contact with agents of weathering. Their home will ultimately last longer and it will be safer.
Process of mixing particles of one substance evenly into the particles of another substance.
What is Dissolving?
What process is responsible for wearing away of Earth's surface?
What is Erosion?
What harmful substance is found in fertilizer?
What is Nitrogen?
The cloudiness or haziness of a liquid caused by large numbers of tiny particles such as dirt.
What is Turbidity?
Should humans build on wetlands? Why or why not? (HINT: Think about the ecosystem)
NO because wetlands are a habitat to special organisms, wetlands are natural filters for pollution, and they slow down erosion!
When a solvent mixes with a solute, what substance does this create?
What is Solution?
What are 2 impacts fertilizer has on plants?
What is:
1. Make them grow bigger
2. Make more plants
3. Grow quicker