Human Impact
Pros and Cons
Natural Resources
Power Resources
Previous Units
100
This word establishes standards and policies to improve the environment.
Consideration Conservation Condensation
What is Conservation?
100
True or False?
Not properly treating polluted water saves money and provides humans with safe drinking water.
What is False?
100
True or False?
Nonrenewable resources can be replaced naturally in a short amount of time.
What is False?
100
This is the source of energy used by the panels shown in the picture.
What is the Sun?
100
This moon phase is between the Sun and Earth.
What is the New Moon?
200
Name three abiotic and biotic factors that humans end up polluting or destroying.
What are air, water, and forests.
200
The environmental reason a community should install solar panels at a school.
What is reduces pollution?
Also sustainable, renewable
200
Wind farms are a cleaner energy resource. This improves this type of pollution.
What is air pollution?
200
These two energy sources have the highest impact on human health.
What are coal and oil?
Also accept: brown coal and coal
200
The light reflects off of the ____________ side of the Moon in the waxing phases.
What is the right side?
300
Replacing a tree that had to be removed will reduce this process which causes sediment pollution.
What is erosion?
300
Building taller buildings has this positive impact on the land.
What is less development?
Also, more green space
300
Deforestation is to reducing animal and plant habitats as reforestation is to _________________________.
What is replacing animal and plant habitats?
Also, putting them back, increasing habitats
300
This type of power source is pictured below.
What is coal?
300
This force keeps the Moon in orbit around the Earth.
What is gravitational?
400
An increase in world population can lead to many negative environmental effects. Name at least 1 negative impact.
What is deforestation, increased carbon emissions, climate change, increased acid rain, increased pollution?
400
This process carries toxic chemicals, metals, and sediment to waterways.
What is runoff?
400
This abiotic substance is essential for all life to survive.
What is clean water?
400
Name 3 renewable resources.
What are solar, wind, hydro, biomass, geothermal?
400
Thunderstorms and cooler temperatures are the result of a cool air mass pushing under this temperature air mass.
What is warm air mass?
500
Flatworms that live on snails cause schistosomiasis which is a harmful human disease. River carp eat the snails but are killed by a pesticide in runoff from a local farm. The result is that hospitals will have fewer/more cases of schistosomiasis to treat.
What is more?
500
Efficient gas engines reduce this type of pollution.
What is air?
500
The reason we need to protect our natural resources.
The basic necessities of life come from natural resources.
500
Name 3 nonrenewable resources.
What are coal, natural gas, propane, petroleum/oil, nuclear?
500
Estuaries filter sediment making the water this.
What is cleaner?