Human Impact Review

Human Impact Review

Open Ended

What is the Greenhouse Effect and how do humans contribute to the Greenhouse Effect?

Multiple Choice

This is a process in which materials with carbon, such as fossil fuels and trees, are burned, producing carbon dioxide gas.

• Photosynthesis

• Combustion

• Decomposition

• Respiration

Multiple Choice

The process in plants that uses solar energy, water and carbon dioxide gas to produce oxygen gas and carbohydrates is called _____________________.

• photosynthesis

• combustion

• decomposition

• respiration

Multiple Choice

When animals and plants die, the bacteria that decompose them change the carbon in the dead animals and plants to carbon dioxide gas and soil carbon. This is called _________________.

• photosynthesis

• combustion

• decomposition

• respiration

Multiple Choice

When animals breathe, they produce carbon dioxide gas. This is called ________________.

• photosynthesis

• combustion

• decomposition

• respiration

Multiple Choice

Carbon can be present in the atmosphere as ____________________.

• fossil fuels

• photosynthesis

• carbon dioxide gas

• carbohydrates

Multiple Choice

Water that moves on the surface of the Earth and into rivers, lakes and oceans is called ______________________. This can also move contamination from the land into rivers, lakes and oceans.

• nitrogen

• surface runoff

• groundwater

• fossil fuels

Multiple Choice

Water that exists under the ground is called _________________. Many people use this water for drinking.

• nitrogen

• surface runoff

• groundwater

• fossil fuels

Multiple Choice

The process in which liquid water changes to water vapor and moves to the atmosphere.

• Precipitation

• Collection

• Evaporation

• Condensation

Multiple Choice

The process in which liquid water in clouds falls to Earth as rain or snow.

• Precipitation

• Collection

• Evaporation

• Condensation

Multiple Choice

The process in which water moves on the Earth into rivers, lakes and oceans, and also into the ground.

• Precipitation

• Collection

• Evaporation

• Condensation

Multiple Choice

The process in which water vapor changes to liquid water and makes clouds.

• Precipitation

• Collection

• Evaporation

• Condensation

Open Ended

What did Garrett Hardin mean by "The Tragedy of the Commons"?