Land Pollution

How do landfills effect the environment?

• Landfills cause fish to be poisoned and die.
• Landfills support plant growth and healthy soil.
• Landfills cause smog in the air.
• Landfills cause chemicals from trash to absorb into the soil and harm plants.

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Which is one reason that trash and litter can hurt wildlife?

   

• Wildlife are afraid of human garbage.
• Trash covers the scent of other animals they are hunting.
• Wildlife may try to eat plastics and choke on them.
• Trash and litter removes their camouflage.

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Which human action can cause pollution?

• Walking

• Biking

• Mining

• Recycling

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What is an effect of land pollution?

• no clean drinking water

• loss of habitat for animals

• diseases from breathing in poor quality air

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What is the largest cause of land pollution?

• Animal waste

• Plants decomposing

• Human actions

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Which of the following are causes of land pollution?

• Mining

• Increase in greenhouse gases

• Pesticides

• Landfills

• Human sewage

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_____________________ is the contamination of air, land, and water.

• Conservation

• Ecology

• Pollution

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Pollution occurs when people release, dump, leak, spill, or ______________ the environment around us.

• litter

• preserve

• save

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The illegal dumping or littering of waste onto the land is called __________ pollution.

• air

• land

• water

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_____ is a material that is found in nature and that is used by living things.

• nonrenewable resource
• natural resource
• renewable resource

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