Environmental Changes Affect Living things
Environmental Changes Affect Living things
Environmental Changes Affect Living things
What are landforms?
What are landforms?
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What causes a drought?
No rainfall
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What is one negative effect of fires.
Answers may vary
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What is one positive effect of beavers to the environment?
They build dams, creating a new place for animals to live.
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Some landforms are made by moving water or ice. Which landform is a low area made by moving water or ice?
A valley
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What is a mountain?
A. Landform that is very high
B. Landform that is flat on its top
Landform that is very high
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Jenna is writing a report about a plant called kudzu. It grows very fast and covers other plants as it grows. Which is an effect of kudzu growing in an environment?
Other plants do not get enough sunlight and die
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What is erosion?
Erosion is when small pieces of rocks are carried away by water and sometimes by wind.
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Are termite mounds good or bad for plants? Why
Termite mounds are good for plants because they add nutrients to the soil.
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Jin wonders whether the landform near his town is a plain or a plateau. Which sentence explains the difference between these two landforms?
- A plateau is flat and rises above a plain.
- A plain is large and goes around a plateau.
- A plain is flatter and higher than a plateau.
A plateau is flat and rises above a plain.
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What is a canyon?
A canyon is a valley with steep sides.
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Which is an example of how people can help an environment?
- A pond is drained.
- Trees are planted in a forest.
- Trash is dumped in the ocean.
- Houses are built on a grassland.
Trees are planted in a forest.
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What happens to a plant if the soil it is in erodes?
It will die because eventually there will not be enough soil to hold it in the earth and provide it with nutrients.
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How do humans effect the environment?
Answers may vary.
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What are the layers of the Earth?
Crust, Mantle, Outer layer, Inner layer
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A plateau is a small hill of land.
1- true
2- false
false
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Which of the following could be a cause of environmental change?
1- A forest fire
2- Clear cutting to create farmland
3- A volcanic eruption
4- All of the above
All of the above
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What is the difference between floods and drought?
A flood is when you have too much water, and a drought is when you don't have enough water.
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What happens to an animal if the plant that the animal eats dies out from disease?
The animal will not have enough food.
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The crust is the hottest layer of Earth.
1- True
2- False
False
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What is the difference between plain and plateau?
Answer may vary.
plateau: is a flat are. It is higher than land around it.
plain: is a flat land spreads out over a long distance.
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What do fires cause?
flame, heat, ash, and smoke
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What do animals do when the plants they depend on for food die out due to drought?
They have to move away to find food somewhere else.
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How might an environmental change affect a specific food chain?
Answer may vary.
If there is a drought, there will be fewer plants for mice to eat. fewer mice means there will be fewer snakes, and so on.
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A __________ is a raised area of land smaller than a mountain
1- hill
2- plateau
hill
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What do mountains and plateaus have in common?
Mountains and plateaus are both elevated (high up) landforms.