3.2.2 Changes Affects Organisms

Which of the following does not change the environment?

• Flood

• People

• Earthquake

• Pizza

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How might a hurricane change the environment of a bird?

• Knock down the tree where it lives

• Flood the ground so it can’t find food

• Make its habitat more safe

• Scare away predators that might eat the bird

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How might an invasive plant hurt the native plants in an ecosystem?

• Take away the other plant’s resources like water and sunlight

• It wouldn’t hurt the other plants

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What happens to plants and animals that cannot adapt to their new environment?

• Nothing happens to them

• They get bigger

• They die off

• They grow stronger

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Imagine you were a lizard that lived in the deserts of Arizona. One day, a human trapped you and took you back to their home in Michigan. What would you need in your new environment for you to survive?

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When a new species is introduced into an ecosystem, it always takes away _______ from the other species living there.

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Check ALL of the ways humans impact their environment.

• Deforestation

• Pollution

• Clean the environment

• Control how much people can hunt

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Of the choices below, check which ALL the ways humans can endanger the environment.

• Deforestation

• Pollution

• Clean the environment

• Control how much people can hunt

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