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One way poor use of fertilizers in agriculture can affect the environment
What is it can cause pollution of water in lakes and rivers?
Surface mining and peat harvesting similar in the way they affect an ecosystem because
What is both remove vegetation in the area, destroying habitats?
This result is most likely to occur after excessive withdrawal of groundwater in coastal areas
What is intrusion of salt water into the water table?
This could increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
What is burning coal to produce electricity?
This biome has the MOST vegetation
What is a forest?
An effect of deforestation is
What is decrease in biodiversity?
Nuclear power and drilling for oil can both negatively affect ecosystems. This negative impact can only be caused by nuclear power
What is exposure to uranium?
At a city council meeting, a developer outlines plans for a new shopping area. Residents speaking at the meeting voice their concerns that the development will increase runoff and pollute bodies of water in the area. The developer could address their concerns by proposing the addition of this to the plans
What is wetlands that surround the development?
Temperature affects the development of sea-turtle eggs. Eggs that are incubated at warmer temperatures are more likely to become females. Eggs incubated at cooler temperatures are more likely to become males. Higher atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations MOST likely affect sea turtle populations
What is: Earth’s climate would be warmer, so the percentage of female turtles would increase?
This action will most likely cause a negative impact on the biodiversity of a small region
What is draining a wetland for the development of a new park?
Guatemala is a mountainous country in Central America. Each year, more than 350 square kilometers of forests are removed for building materials and to make more room for crops. If this rate of deforestation continues, this will most likely result over the next several years
What is the risk of landslides across the country will increase?
The energy resources uranium and coal have this in common
What is they both are acquired by mining the lithosphere?
This is MOST likely to deplete groundwater supplies
What is installation of city-owned wells within each neighborhood?
As more livestock are raised to provide food for humans, this is MOST likely effect of the increase in methane
What is global warming?
A global decrease in plant diversity affect the biosphere by
What is it could cause a decrease in animal populations in the biosphere?
The soil on the hillsides of the Dominican Republic is deep and rich. But the soil on the hillsides of Haiti is thin and depleted. The poor, thin soil makes raising crops difficult. Food shortages happen often. This natural conditions in Haiti combines with deforestation to increase erosion
What is frequent heavy rains and steep hillsides?
This method of energy resource acquisition has the LEAST effect on the lithosphere
What is harvesting wood by selective cutting?
This would most likely result if more farms were developed along river basins in North Carolina
What is an increase in water pollution?
This human activity has caused the greatest increase in concentrations of atmospheric CO2
What is burning fossil fuels?
Two farmers decide to plant fewer types of corn in their fields. Changing the biodiversity of the corn crop affect the fields by
What is planting fewer types of corn will make the corn more vulnerable to plant pathogens?
In the 1930s, the American Great Plains became known as the Dust Bowl because it was the source of huge clouds of dust that covered much of the United States. This BEST describes the causes of the Dust Bowl
What is a severe drought and the overuse of prairie farmland?
If people in an area have limited access to freshwater resources, thias will most likely result
What is a decrease in sanitation and increase in disease in the area?
This is a possible consequence of the destruction of a marsh
What is decreased filtering of water?
This interaction of a biotic and an abiotic factor can help stabilize a forest area in North Carolina
What is increased decaying organic material, adding nutrients to soil in the area?
If fossil fuel usage were unlimited, the effect would this have on Earth’s biosphere is
What is it would pollute natural habitats, which would decrease the biodiversity on Earth?