Biodiversity & Human Impact
After careful research and planning, governments put laws in place to prevent species from disappearing, otherwise known as
What is preventing species extinction
A natural resource that replenishes over a short period of time.
What is a renewable resource?
What is Municipal Waste
Pollutants that form when chemicals react in the atmosphere.
What are secondary pollutants?
When cities spread outward instead of building upward.
What is urban sprawl?
Clearing forests for farmland leads to this problem, where habitats are broken into smaller pieces.
What is habitat fragmentation?
Coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of this type of resource.
Improper disposal of plastic can cause animals to die from this.
What is ingestion
A weather condition where warm air traps cooler polluted air near the ground.
What is a thermal inversion?
Increasing green spaces in cities helps improve this.
What is biodiversity?
An unintended consequence of pesticides is that they can harm this group of organisms that were not meant to be targeted.
What are non-target species?
also acceptable:
Wildlife
Beneficial insects
Native species
Fossil fuels are considered nonrenewable because they take this to form.
What is millions of years
Modern technology has caused deforestation to occur at a ______ rate compared to the 1800s.
what is faster
Urban areas full of concrete and asphalt that trap extra heat are known as these.
What are urban heat islands?
Encouraging public transportation instead of individual car use helps reduce this environmental problem.
What is air pollution?
When biodiversity decreases, ecosystems become less ______ and more likely to collapse.
This ocean-based energy source is renewable and produces little to no greenhouse gases.
What is energy from waves.
Deforestation increases greenhouse gases because trees normally absorb this gas.
What is carbon dioxide?
Air pollution is linked to these types of health problems.
What are respiratory and heart problems?
Using renewable technology is an example of this type of practice.
What is sustainable practice (or sustainability)?
A city expands into a forest. Predict two environmental consequences.
what are Habitat loss and decreased biodiversity.
other acceptable answers: Species displacement
Increased extinction risk
Fragmentation
Burning fossil fuels releases large amounts of these types of gases. How can they cause climate change?
What are greenhouse gases, and when these gases build up in the atmosphere, they break down the ozone layer allowing the sun's UV rays to directly hit the surface of the Earth.
One major environmental risk of oil pipelines is this event, which can contaminate water supplies.
What is an oil spill?
Air pollution contributes to this global environmental issue.
What is climate change (or global warming)?
A city must choose between expanding outward into farmland or building upward with high-rise apartments. Which option is more sustainable, and explain TWO environmental reasons why.
Acceptable answers:
Reduces habitat destruction
Decreases sprawl
Protects biodiversity
Reduces emissions
More efficient land use